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 [...]
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 [...]
This post is part of API’s 2020 election network, a project to help local news leaders and experts address misinformation and election integrity issues in [...]
Voters get information about candidates, issues and the mechanics of their elections from an increasingly vast media ecosystem that includes conventional media, partisan media, social [...]
The American Press Institute today announced a grant of $388,000 from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to build a real-time network of newsroom leaders, civic and academic [...]
Once a news organization identifies something as false, the question becomes how to cover it, if at all. The instinct of most news people when [...]
The public today must navigate a news ecosystem contaminated with false information. Some of it is spread without malicious intent, which is generally called misinformation. [...]
In his more than two decades in journalism, Joel Christopher had never seen anything like it. When he arrived at the Louisville Courier Journal as [...]