Special Edition

API's tools Metrics for News and Source Matters had another banner year, while API staff shared their expertise at events across the country.

Here's what we covered this year.

Here are some resources we offered to help foster healthy, responsive and resilient news organizations in 2024.

Building an ongoing relationship with your audience can shape your coverage and show them you’re invested in what matters to them. Then, when it’s time to compile your voter guide, you’ll have a clear roadmap of the candidates and topics that resonate with your community.

Judicial races receive far less attention, but the often unknown candidates who win those races will make decisions that can significantly impact your community.

Here is a step-by-step guide you can follow to identify PPP loans to political candidates, their businesses and their spouses.

We'll share some of the resources, tools and lessons learned from our training sessions and research help desk. We hope you can use these as you plan your continuing accountability coverage and start thinking about the next election on the horizon.

While news organizations focus on the Nov. 5 vote, how might this coverage prepare for the work to come after? How does that energy build to something more robust and sustained?

Election Day is one of those news events that can catch newsrooms off guard because planning is often designed around getting the results and reporting them, as opposed to unforeseen problems at the polls.

Misinformation is one more thing election reporting teams need to account for, especially during Election Day and through the time it takes to determine the winners. Here's how to plan ahead.