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    Block Club Chicago’s coronavirus hotline connects readers with questions to reporters with answers

    People have questions. Journalists have answers. But it can be surprisingly difficult to connect the two. Someone wondering, for example, what COVID-19 testing options are [...]

    February 18, 2021
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    How a small-town paper is applying conflict mediation skills to its opinion content

    Editor’s Note: The American Press Institute is exploring how news organizations are reimagining opinion journalism to support constructive conversations in their communities. This essay by [...]

    February 1, 2021
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    A new chapter for the press: 5 ideas for moving forward after Trump

    A new column from API Executive Director Tom Rosenstiel, published in partnership with the Poynter Institute, about the press and politics, culture and media ethics, technology [...]

    January 28, 2021
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    How collaborating helped two Idaho publishers engage Latino audiences

    A core goal of journalism is to lift up underheard voices. Sometimes, the best way to do that is to give those voices a stage [...]

    January 21, 2021
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    Best practices for journalists covering crises on Twitter

    This piece is part of API’s Research Review series, which highlights academic research that could be relevant and useful to the news industry. We also [...]

    November 16, 2020
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    Why the Philadelphia Inquirer is investing in service journalism

    With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, many newsrooms began pouring energy and resources into producing news that audiences could use to [...]

    November 11, 2020
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    13 tips for covering likely election scenarios

    American elections are highly decentralized, with local and state laws and processes governing election administration in more than 10,000 jurisdictions across the country. As in [...]

    October 25, 2020
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    5 guideposts for thoughtfully covering the voting

    This year’s election will have problems, and journalists need to handle them with care. Here are five guideposts for doing so. Elections are the highest [...]

    October 25, 2020
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    Covering the gears of democracy: How three election reporters are connecting readers to politics by explaining the right to vote

    They’re not conventional political journalists, but they might have the most important beat of 2020. This election year was going to be different even before [...]

    October 6, 2020
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    How listening informed La Estrella de Tucsón’s reporting during COVID-19

    When COVID-19 infection rates began rising in southern Arizona in early spring, two things quickly became clear: one, predominantly Hispanic communities were suffering more than [...]

    September 16, 2020
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