The return of Donald Trump to the White House has many in the media concerned about how the journalism industry will fare. On the Poynter podcast, Kelly McBride predicts that he will use his power to ...

Since Election Day, social media users are leaving X in droves and turning to Bluesky. CNET reported that the platform was gaining 1 million users a day, and TechCrunch reports that the platform has ...

Presidential and congressional races usually suck all the political air out of the election cycle. Judicial races receive far less attention, but the often unknown candidates who win those races will ...

The media is beginning to feel the first impacts of the upcoming Trump administration. As Sara Guaglione wrote in Digiday last week, it’s unclear whether media outlets will get the same “Trump bump” ...

In the wake of last week’s presidential election, newsrooms are reflecting on the role of the modern media in elections. Stephen J. Adler writes for the Columbia Journalism Review that news outlets ...

The American Press Institute will soon complete a yearlong project to outline opportunities to improve local journalism and limit polarization — specifically by enabling news leaders and non-news ...

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 ...

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 ...

When community members are no longer voters, their needs become diffuse once again and there is no clear, focusing mandate. So many newsrooms slip back into the usual: politics coverage driven by ...

Heading into an election, newsrooms have at least one very clear mandate from the public they serve: help us make informed decisions on our ballots. And across the country, newsrooms have responded to ...

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 ...

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., ...