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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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