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    5 guideposts for thoughtfully covering the voting

    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 [...]

    October 25, 2020
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    Local news sustainability: API advisers highlight three paths forward

    As the coronavirus ravages local journalism outlets across America — resulting in countless layoffs, furloughs and closures — it has laid bare how much we [...]

    October 6, 2020
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    Providing nuanced information to voters to address voting disparities and difficulties

    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 [...]

    August 25, 2020
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    9 tips for covering election misinformation

    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 [...]

    August 5, 2020
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    Local newsrooms should talk about how to cover politicians who promote conspiracy theories like QAnon

    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 [...]

    July 16, 2020
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    The primaries so far: Are states ready for November?

    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, [...]

    June 29, 2020
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    New grant will allow API to help newsrooms better understand and refine their coverage of the 2020 elections

    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 [...]

    June 1, 2020
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    Talking about misinformation with First Draft

    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 [...]

    May 27, 2020
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    Nine lessons from Wisconsin’s chaotic spring election

    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 [...]

    May 13, 2020
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    Covering the campaign during coronavirus: What journalists need to know

    This is the second in a series of articles aimed at helping local news leaders and experts address misinformation and election integrity issues in the [...]

    April 20, 2020
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