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“We Can’t Only be Mad at Facebook”: Nonprofits, Newsrooms Team Up Against Misinformation

“We Can’t Only be Mad at Facebook”: Nonprofits, Newsrooms Team Up Against Misinformation

On September 28, a detailed investigation by Channel 4 News in the U.K. revealed that Trump’s election campaign had deployed an ad strategy it called “Deterrence.” The campaign bought ads…
How The Associated Press Plans to Report The Election Results

How The Associated Press Plans to Report The Election Results

For more than 170 years, the world has relied on The Associated Press to count the vote in U.S. elections and deliver the results. We have done this through the…
Covering Election Anxiety, Racial Inequity, and a Whole Lot More in a Key Battleground State

Covering Election Anxiety, Racial Inequity, and a Whole Lot More in a Key Battleground State

As a 53-year-old, family-owned, Black-led newspaper in Pinellas County, Florida, The Weekly Challenger’s mission has been to expound upon, educate, and address the interests and needs of the Black population…
To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

Germans have a term — vergangenheitsbewältigung — to describe the process of coming to terms with the past. The concept emerged in the decades after World War II, as historians, philosophers,…
How to Report—or Not Report—on Biden’s Stutter

How to Report—or Not Report—on Biden’s Stutter

There was a time I dreamed of debating Rush Limbaugh. I wanted to face and rhetorically take down the famed talk show host the way I loved catching touchdown passes…
How Not to Cover Voter Fraud Disinformation

How Not to Cover Voter Fraud Disinformation

No group of people has a more important role to play in shaping how Americans think about mail-in voter fraud than editors and journalists who write for local and regional…
Critical Coverage: Cable News and Trump’s Covid-19 Diagnosis

Critical Coverage: Cable News and Trump’s Covid-19 Diagnosis

On Monday evening, President Donald Trump gently touched down on the White House lawn in Marine One after a weekend treatment for Covid-19 at Walter Reed Medical Center.He mounted the…
Navigating Racial Tension in The Newsroom

Navigating Racial Tension in The Newsroom

In “Why Didn’t We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland,” published October 6 by Other Press, Issac J. Bailey reflects on what it means to be a Black man in…
Photographic Reflections on Peace Following Conflict

Photographic Reflections on Peace Following Conflict

The following is from “Imagine: Reflections on Peace,” a new book, as well as an exhibition and series of short films, from The VII Foundation that features photographic essays from…
How Should Journalists Respond to Trump’s Refusal to Commit to a Peaceful Transfer of Power?

How Should Journalists Respond to Trump’s Refusal to Commit to a Peaceful Transfer of Power?

I began a recent session of my “Trump, Race, and U.S. Media” course at Davidson College with video clips of news reports about protests in the aftermath of the Breonna…