Election Resources and Guides
Election Coverage Guide
We’ve got three weeks until Election Day.
And Americans are facing massive, well-funded efforts to keep them ill-informed, and confused.
Your job is to increase transparency.
The following should help:
ELECTION COVERAGE RESOURCES
Want to know how much candidates have in their coffer and who’s giving them money, go to: OPEN SECRETS.
Want to know about early voting and mail-in voting, go to: 2024 ELECTION STAGES.
Want to explore how disinformation campaigns have worked in other parts of the world, read THIS REPORT.
Want to know how to write a voter guide, go to VOTER GUIDE ELECTION SOS.
Want to learn how to do better election coverage, use the KNIGHT ELECTION HUB.
Want to cover your races with a pro-democracy angle, go to the DEMOCRACY TOOLKIT.
Want to learn how to stop with the horse-race coverage and let communities know what’s at stake this year, go to THE CITIZEN’S AGENDA.
“The media and all Americans should be mindful that false claims of widespread noncitizen voting are designed to sow distrust in our elections and to potentially serve as pretext to undermine or challenge the rightful results.”
- THE NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON ELECTION CRISES
MORE RESOURCES:
What can newsrooms do to support their reporters from election burnout?
Spot election misinformation trends using the News Literacy Project’s dashboard
A legal guide to covering the 2024 election
Also In the News
A ‘damning non-answer’ from JD Vance tells us what to expect from the VP candidate if Trump loses
Why The Right is worried: Young people actually vote.
What election issues are Americans searching for most on Google?
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