Climate change is often framed as a global crisis. By localizing the stories, journalists can make the topic tangible and ...

Young, Black men fresh out of college may face discrimination + have a harder time than young white men when building ...

U.S. public schools wrestled with chronic absenteeism long before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Since then, however, the proportion of students considered chronically absent — meaning they have missed ...

Between Aug. 30 and Oct. 8, a team of researchers at four universities surveyed thousands of American adults and asked the following question: When making a decision about voting, including candidates ...

Know the research, know the survey data, know the legal landscape and know the history: Those were the big takeaways for reporters covering felony disenfranchisement from an hourlong webinar on Oct.

In the 2024 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in thousands of national and local races up and down the ballot — from the presidency to state legislature seats, along ...

Election Day has arrived, but the work of journalists covering the 2024 U.S. election is not over. Reporting on election night results may be the most pivotal task of the entire campaign season. This ...

Newsrooms across the world are gravely understaffed. The research desk is largely a thing of the past, and many local reporters are stretched too thin to develop subject matter expertise in their ...

Knowing what a nationally representative sample is — and isn’t — will help you avoid errors in covering clinical trials, opinion polls and other research.

In this research-based tipsheet, we cover what journalists should know about the history of electoral violence in the U.S., whether Americans think political violence is justified and how election ...

In the lead-up to Election Day in the U.S., it’s important for journalists to remind their audiences of voter registration deadlines in each state, writes media scholar Thomas Patterson in this ...