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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Associated Press on Nov. 5 will count the vote and declare winners in some 7,000 races, doing the work so the world knows as soon as possible who wins not only the White House, but also control of ...