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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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    Are you fighting misinformation? Tell your audience

    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 [...]

    March 23, 2020
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    Election 2020: The role of local news in honest elections

    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 [...]

    March 12, 2020
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    American Press Institute announces grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to connect newsroom leaders and experts ahead of Election 2020

    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 [...]

    January 30, 2020
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    The Sound of Silence: Strategic Amplification

    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 [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    A Sea of Falsehoods

    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. [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    ‘Enemy of the People’

    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 [...]

    December 11, 2019
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