Vet every grant and include as many people in the newsroom as makes sense in the process. If you take a pass, you’ve saved yourself some grief. If you move ahead, you’ve laid the groundwork to give ...

Over time, Twitter evolved from being relatively intimate to being more public and, in some ways, performative. Journalists evolved along with it. Invitations and personal minutiae increasingly turned ...

PolitiFact is live fact-checking the shutdown, including rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. Send fact-check suggestions to [email protected]. This live blog is maintained by PolitiFact, ...

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No matter how we counted, the number of vaccines a young child receives didn’t reach Trump’s claim of 80. Over a child’s ...

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Reporters still trek through politically competitive neighborhoods to interview voters. But quantitative political journalism has become increasingly predominant.

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Poynter is presenting the awards in honor of its 50th anniversary this year. It will hold a similar event Oct. 21 in New York City honoring Dean Baquet of The New York Times and Cleo Abram, video ...