Civic Discourse & Democracy

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 [...]

We hope this essay will provoke some new ideas about how to help people become more discriminating consumers of news. Our recommendations boil down to [...]

What a difference a year of political upheaval makes. The Midwest Political Science Association since 1939 has focused on study and research of political science. [...]

For journalists and other non-trolls, navigating Twitter can be like walking in flip-flops through a well-used dog park. Even if you don’t step in anything, [...]

“Why do Trump’s supporters continue to believe misinformation, even in the face of fact-checking?” That’s the question posed by Carlos Maza via this Vox video [...]