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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

News leaders gather from across the country for our highly participatory, invitation-based convenings that provide a welcoming and collaborative space for local media decision-makers and experts to ...

I feel the absence of my parents acutely this election season. We didn’t always agree, but I miss their counsel and their insights. I wonder now what they would think about the choices before us, how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans face increasing news fatigue. That may feel palpable in an election year when journalists are keyed into critical issues around elections of all sizes — and polls suggest many Americans ...

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 ...

Election Day is one of those news events that can catch newsrooms off guard because planning is often designed around getting the results and reporting them, as opposed to unforeseen problems at the ...