Reporting on Project 2025, So People Listen

Top Story:

These days, the most impactful local news isn’t necessarily local.

Here's why: recent surveys indicate that consumers of local news aren't getting enough info about the way Project 2025 could harm them.

When they do learn about Project 2025, many don’t believe that the alarming, but well-thought-out agenda will ever impact them.  

What brings it home? Hearing about how Project 2025 initiatives are robbing people of their rights in other places.

That means, to cover Project 2025 in places where it has not yet reared its ugly head, you need to report on places where it has.

Tips on Covering Project 2025, So People Listen.

• Look for Project 2025 culture war issues you cover and write about how harmful, anti-democratic policies, laws, and procedures are being implemented in other states, cities, or towns.

  • If you cover aggressive, pro-life activists, report on places where pregnant women are being jailed, forced to birth dead babies, and subject to travel bans.

  • Example: This Nebraska teen told someone on Facebook she was getting an abortion. She was arrested and is now being tried as an adult.

  • If you cover Christian Nationalism, tell stories about places where non-Christians are seeing their rights violated.

  • EXAMPLE: This Tennessee law prevented this Jewish couple from adopting a baby because of religion.

  • If you cover schools and/or LGBTQ rights, cover places where educators are being fired because they are LGBTQ.

  • EXAMPLE: This beloved Alabama principal was recently placed on leave when anti-gay activists discovered she had a girlfriend.  

• Publish story maps, like Democracy Lab’s live map of Project 2025, so readers can visualize the impact the authoritarian vision is having on the country.

• Look for places where the Project 2025 story is being told well. Share.

  

Also In The News

• Phony news on the rise.  

• Sinclair injects fake news about Biden’s age into dozens of local news outlets.

• Family values and the Far Right: We’ve been here before.

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David Armiak, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy

Connor Gibson, founder of Grassrootbeer Investigations

Maurice Cunningham, retired associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and author of Dark Money and The Politics of School Privatization.

Reed Gallen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project

Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War

Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America

Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War

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