When community members are no longer voters, their needs become diffuse once again and there is no clear, focusing mandate.

In the weeks leading up to Election Day, newsrooms prepared themselves and their audiences for another long wait for election results. Instead, Donald Trump declared victory just before 2:30 a.m., ...

Earlier this year, The Nevada Independent asked for Sunlight Research Center’s help identifying Paycheck Protection Program loans to 17 Nevada congressional candidates. Here is a step-by-step guide ...

Welcome the November Need to Know series on elections reporting lessons — tips and tools we used to help newsrooms cover 2024 candidates. Each week, Sunlight Research Center staffers will share ...

At CNN, Brian Stelter argues that while it’s hyperbole to call the mainstream media “dead”, there is a “severe trust deficit” between traditional media and Trump voters. Now, argues Dick Tofel in his ...

This list of election coverage resources is meant to provide journalists with tools they can use immediately in their work during the election week and in the weeks ahead. We hope you find this useful ...

Ten years after the first season of the Serial podcast was released, Nieman Lab is exploring the current state of crime news in America. Neel Dhanesha writes that public radio sees true crime as an ...

Last week, both The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times announced they are not endorsing a presidential candidate in this election — and both papers saw significant subscriber cancellations as a ...

This week, the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University released its annual State of the Local News report. 127 local newspapers have closed in the last year, and 7,000 newspaper jobs ...

As young people turn away from the news, student journalists are trying to bring Gen Z voices to the fore Recent research from Benjamin Toff has found that younger Americans, particularly working ...

Ahead of the presidential election next month, there are widespread fears about the impact of misinformation. The AP is hoping to curb election-night misinformation by hiring 5,000 people to cover ...