Civic Discourse & Democracy

When Raleigh News & Observer Associate Opinion Editor Ned Barnett and his boss, Peter St. Onge, were tipped off to a political dirty trick that [...]

In the age of social media, cable talk shows and fast-moving news cycles, what value does opinion journalism, including the opinion and editorial pages of [...]

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 [...]

Many communities across the country today have unprecedented opportunity to converse with each other, understand one another’s views, and find workable solutions or approaches to [...]

Fact-checkers in the past year have come to resemble emergency physicians doing triage in a raging epidemic. The amount of work is overwhelming, but they [...]

Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the organization of craigslist founder Craig Newmark, has donated $200,000 to the American Press Institute to expand its efforts of promoting ethical [...]

People often don’t know whether the content they see is news or opinion, according to our recent pair of Media Insight Project surveys. In one [...]

Earlier this month, the American Press Institute presented an idea that we believe could help with two challenges confronting journalism: a continuing decline in trust [...]

Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type [...]

When journalists talk about how they wish the public could recognize good reporting from bad reporting or even fakery, the subject often turns to whether [...]