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 [...]
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 [...]
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