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- The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries.
- Mail ballots usually take longer to count. This could lead to delays in declaring a winner in battleground states in the presidential race, possibly making “election night” more like “election week.”
- The AP Stylebook says the percentage sign is now acceptable when paired with a numeral in most cases.
- In granting a posthumous citation to Ida B. Wells, the Pulitzer Prizes honors one of America’s earliest and most intrepid investigative reporters.
- Nikole Hannah-Jones: "If newsroom managers wanted diverse newsrooms, they’d have diverse newsrooms." poynter.org/news/passion-a…
- 1/ University of Florida President Ben Sasse abruptly resigned in July, citing his wife’s poor health. Less than a month later, the student-run newspaper @TheAlligator broke a bombshell story about how spending under Sasse’s office tripled in his first year.
- Experts are urging media outlets to continually explain the realities of mail-in voting and maintain transparency about the vote count in order to head off conspiracy theories about the validity of the vote.
- The Pulitzer Prizes routinely honor lots of journalism from U.S. news centers like New York and Washington, D.C. But in 2023, much of the best work, according to the Pulitzer Board, was set in the 24th most populous state — Alabama.
- Today's an unwelcome reminder that journalism is difficult and dangerous work poynter.org/news/todays-un…
- The journalist who won the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s first Pulitzer still does a monthly night cops shift poynter.org/2017/the-journ…
- Replying to @Poynter2/ The story went viral and drew national attention. Florida’s chief financial officer ordered an investigation. Meet the students who chased the story:
