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    Keeping opinion local: The benefits of cutting national politics from opinion sections

    When news organizations face cuts, opinion editors and writers are some of the first on the chopping block: Their work can be replaced by that [...]

    April 19, 2021
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    Building election coverage with audiences

    No work of journalism should be focused more on what matters to the public than election coverage. Voters, after all, are the decision makers. But [...]

    April 6, 2021
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    Addressing false information during the 2020 election and lessons for the future

    The 2020 election may be remembered best for misinformation. Led by the defeated president himself, partisans — including elected officials — and others seeking to [...]

    April 6, 2021
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    Amid uncertainty, back-to-basics reporting became essential in 2020 election coverage

    The pandemic made nearly every facet of life more complicated. That, in turn, altered what kind of news people needed.  In response, many journalists offered [...]

    April 6, 2021
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    Lessons from 2020: How local newsrooms responded to unprecedented challenges

    The pandemic created new challenges for journalists trying to help audiences make sense of a contentious election, one already complicated by abrupt shifts in voting [...]

    April 6, 2021
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    7 questions to help local media rebound in 2021

    Worldwide, the lives of most journalists have been consumed over the past 12 months by cataclysmic events both anticipated and unexpected. But no media organization [...]

    April 5, 2021
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    Is local journalism dying? Look closer.

    This is the second installment of a column from API Executive Director Tom Rosenstiel, published in partnership with the Poynter Institute, about the press and politics, [...]

    March 10, 2021
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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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