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All year, journalists all over the United States have been hard at work covering the 2024 election. The Journalist’s Resource team has been hard at work, too, creating resources to help you cover the ...

“Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media”: From New York University and Stanford University, published in Research and Politics. By Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, and Chuan Yu. This ...

With confirmed cases of COVID-19 — the disease caused by a novel coronavirus — on the rise, organizations worldwide are encouraging or mandating that their employees telework. Federal agencies in the ...

Why pedestrian crashes happen and demographic risk trends Recent research has identified several characteristics of intersections where vehicle-pedestrian crashes are more likely. A peer-reviewed ...

Many Americans share fake news on social media because they’re simply not paying attention to whether the content is accurate — not necessarily because they can’t tell real from made-up news, a new ...

“The reality is that AI models can often prepare a decent first draft,” Julia Angwin, longtime tech reporter and newsroom leader, wrote recently in a New York Times op-ed. “But I find that when I use ...

Political scientist Mike Binder has likened conducting polls and surveys to home-brewing beer. Both might seem relatively easy to do, but both require ample thought and planning if you want ...

This tip sheet outlining ways journalists can access academic research for free, originally published in September 2018, has been updated with new information. Here at The Journalist’s Resource, we’re ...

With rising rents and financial strife from the COVID-19 pandemic rippling through U.S. cities, some municipalities are turning to rent regulation as a policy to help tenants stay in their homes.

Institutional investors entered the single-family home rental market en masse following the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009. Subprime mortgage foreclosures during the late-2000s ...

When news outlets report that new research studies prove something, they’re almost certainly wrong. Studies conducted in fields outside of mathematics do not “prove” anything. They find evidence — ...