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How to be effective at post-election engagement

By Massarah Mikati | March 27, 2025

By Massarah Mikati Communities’ information needs don’t disappear once an election is over. As the Trump administration’s barrage of executive orders, the numerous attacks on First Amendment rights and an…

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Case Study: Platforming Black people’s political power

By Massarah Mikati | March 11, 2025

By Massarah Mikati Going into the 2024 presidential election, Capital B knew they had a monstrous task ahead of them to fulfill their mission of serving Black audiences during a…

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Case study: Putting together an election guide of the people in Santa Cruz

By Massarah Mikati | March 11, 2025

By Massarah Mikati Every election season, Santa Cruz Local has one big product that serves as the core of their election coverage: the People’s Agenda. Like many other election guides,…

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Case study: Wisconsin’s Main Street Agenda partnership uncovers voter concerns

By Massarah Mikati | March 11, 2025

By Massarah Mikati As the 2024 election neared, staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel knew they wanted to tailor their reporting to readers’ needs, priorities and questions — and they…

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Case Study: Kansas City Defender pursues engagement through activism

By Massarah Mikati | February 26, 2025

By Massarah Mikati The Kansas City Defender isn’t like any other newsroom. In fact, founder Ryan Sorrell doesn’t even call it a news outlet, but rather a community organization. Since…

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5 engagement lessons journalists can learn from the Democrats’ presidential campaign

By Massarah Mikati | December 4, 2024

By Massarah Mikati Analyses and hypotheses have been rolling in nonstop since this year’s presidential election results were finalized, with particular focus on what went wrong with the Democratic Party’s…

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Engage communities of color with your election coverage

By Massarah Mikati | October 24, 2024

By Massarah Mikati Communities of color have been the focal point of elections and campaigns, especially over the past few years. But because of a history of media harming those…

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Our 2024 Scenario Planning Guide

By Jennifer Brandel | October 24, 2024

Back by popular demand, here is the Election SOS Scenario Planning Guide for 2024. This guide illuminates a variety of challenges that journalists and newsroom leaders are contending with, and…

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Develop your Election Day coverage game plan

By Massarah Mikati | October 22, 2024

By Massarah Mikati Election Day is around the corner — are you ready to cover it? We don’t need to tell you that the best way to prepare for the…

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Earn trust in your election coverage

By Massarah Mikati | October 22, 2024

By Massarah Mikati Most people are overwhelmed by information and don’t really understand what makes responsible journalism different from the rest of the noise in their feeds. That’s normal! It’s…

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Use This Story Template To Set Expectations on Results

By Jennifer Brandel | October 22, 2024

By Pam Fessler, The Elections Group and former NPR News correspondent One thing you can do now, before Election Day, is produce a story about when people can expect to know the…

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Make your political coverage stand out

By Massarah Mikati | October 22, 2024

By Massarah Mikati As 2024 election day fast approaches, it’s hard to not fall into familiar patterns of political coverage: horse race stories that focus on polls, campaign strategies and…

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