There was a time when being a journalist meant pursuing a story by reporting the available information from as many sources as possible, writing the [...]
Most news organizations aspire to a goal of delivering quality information that can promote healthy dialogue among members of their communities. Some succeed better than [...]
Each of the challenges addressed in this report – misinformation, attempts to manipulate journalists, polarized audiences and disparagement of journalists by politicians – is a [...]
For years, columnists and analysts have observed and lamented the growing polarity in American politics. Too often, they act like bystanders, pointing out problems but [...]
Like so many other great ideas, this one began over a beer. It was the fall of 2017, and my editor George Stanley and I [...]
When Raleigh News & Observer Associate Opinion Editor Ned Barnett and his boss, Peter St. Onge, were tipped off to a political dirty trick that [...]
In the age of social media, cable talk shows and fast-moving news cycles, what value does opinion journalism, including the opinion and editorial pages of [...]
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 hope that [...]
Many communities across the country today have unprecedented opportunity to converse with each other, understand one another’s views, and find workable solutions or approaches to [...]
Fact-checkers adapt to heightened combat, facing politicians who are repeating lies and pushing back
Fact-checkers in the past year have come to resemble emergency physicians doing triage in a raging epidemic. The amount of work is overwhelming, but they [...]
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