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    Forming a community advisory board for your newsroom

    On May 31, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd swept the nation, staffers at the Long Beach Post in Long Beach, California, [...]

    September 2, 2020
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    Providing nuanced information to voters to address voting disparities and difficulties

    Summary In the midst of a national reckoning over voting by mail, the complicated, localized picture of how people actually vote needs more attention than [...]

    August 25, 2020
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    9 tips for covering election misinformation

    Experts warn that much of the discourse voters see this election will be laced with false information, misleading or out-of-context claims, and targeted disinformation. Most [...]

    August 5, 2020
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    Local newsrooms should talk about how to cover politicians who promote conspiracy theories like QAnon

    Covering conspiracy theories and those who spread them has always been a tricky proposition for journalists. If you are in the business of trying to [...]

    July 16, 2020
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    The primaries so far: Are states ready for November?

    The 2020 primaries so far in states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have shown a lack of readiness for voting in a pandemic. Many states are, [...]

    June 29, 2020
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    How female TV journalists deal with the emotional toll of harassment

    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 hope that [...]

    June 3, 2020
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    Talking about misinformation with First Draft

    The spread of misinformation can be a black box. Bubbles, filters and algorithms form the boundaries of our online life, and they tend to delineate [...]

    May 27, 2020
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    Nine lessons from Wisconsin’s chaotic spring election

    Wisconsin’s election on April 7 was a test of how a democracy functions in a pandemic.  Democracy held on, but at a price. The election [...]

    May 13, 2020
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    How COVID-19 is reshaping grantmaking and what news organizations should know

    Just when news organizations are feeling the weight of unprecedented audience urgency, the numbing sear of burnout, and the effects of cratering ad revenues, foundations [...]

    May 5, 2020
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    How news organizations are asking for audience support in the time of coronavirus

    Many news organizations with paid subscriptions are removing barriers to their coronavirus coverage as a public service, and putting that content in front of their [...]

    May 4, 2020
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