American elections are highly decentralized, with local and state laws and processes governing election administration in more than 10,000 jurisdictions across the country. As in [...]
This year’s election will have problems, and journalists need to handle them with care. Here are five guideposts for doing so. Elections are the highest [...]
As the coronavirus ravages local journalism outlets across America — resulting in countless layoffs, furloughs and closures — it has laid bare how much we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies will provide a special version of API’s advanced Metrics for News app free to 60 publishers. The American Press Institute [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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