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 [...]
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 [...]
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