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Title	Link	Type
24 lessons for the 2022 elections	www.americanpressinstitute.org	Toolkit // Guide
A Brief But Spectacular take on telling the whole story by David Bornstein	www.pbs.org	Video
A Reporter’s Guide to Pre-Publication Review	www.rcfp.org	Toolkit // Guide
ALEC Exposed	www.alecexposed.org	Toolkit // Guide
American Democracy doesn’t need saving — it needs creating	medium.com	Article
An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy	www.ted.com	Video
Anti-Protest Lobby Tracker	antiprotestlobby.org	Toolkit // Guide
API’s Need To Know Newsletter	www.americanpressinstitute.org	Newsletter
Best Of Enemies	www.pbs.org	Documentary
Better News	betternews.org	Toolkit // Guide
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates	bookshop.org	Book
Black in the Newsroom	blackinthenewsroom.com	Documentary
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge	bookshop.org	Book
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows	bookshop.org	Book
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop by Lee Drutman	bookshop.org	Book
Briefing: Tackling Misinformation Ahead of Election Day	vimeo.com	Video
Campaign of Fear: The Trump world’s assault on U.S. election workers	www.reuters.com	Toolkit // Guide
Community Disinformation Action Hub	pen.org	Toolkit // Guide
Complicating The Narratives	thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org	Article
Copaganda Journalism	equalityalec.substack.com	Blog // Op-Ed
Democracy Initiatives	www.adl.org	Toolkit // Guide
Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society by Victor Pickard	bookshop.org	Book
Denver Democracy Summit	korbel.du.edu	Event
Disinformation, Midterms, and the Mind: How psychological science can help journalists combat election misinformation	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
Drilled	www.drilledpodcast.com	Podcast
Election Law	electionlawblog.org	Blog // Op-Ed
Election Legal Guide	www.rcfp.org	Toolkit // Guide
Election SOS Newsletter	electionsos.com	Newsletter
Emotions in Conflict by Eran Halperin	bookshop.org	Book
Feels Good Man	www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com	Documentary
Fine-tuning your Election Day coverage plans: A conversation with the AP	www.americanpressinstitute.org	Article
Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy	carnegieendowment.org	Article
Gaslit Nation	gaslitnation.libsyn.com	Podcast
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley	bookshop.org	Book
High Turnout Wide Margins	twitter.com	Podcast
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt	bookshop.org	Book
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley	bookshop.org	Book
How Newsrooms Can Combat Election Misinformation	mediaengagement.org	Toolkit // Guide
I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán	bookshop.org	Book
I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?	www.washingtonpost.com	Blog // Op-Ed
In brief: Misinformation	newslit.org	Classroom resource
In The Thick	www.inthethick.org	Podcast
Insurrection Exposed	insurrectionexposed.org	Toolkit // Guide
Into America	podcasts.apple.com	Podcast
Is That a Fact?	newslit.org	Podcast
It Could Happen Here by Jonathan Greenblatt	bookshop.org	Book
It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?	podcasts.apple.com	Podcast
Journalism and Jim Crow by Kathy Roberts Forde	bookshop.org	Book
Latino USA	www.latinousa.org	Podcast
Let the People Pick the President by Jesse Wegman	bookshop.org	Book
Let Us Make Men by D'Weston Haywood	bookshop.org	Book
Locking Up Our Own	us.macmillan.com	Book
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky	bookshop.org	Book
Media isn't doing nearly enough to defend democracy — but it's not too late to change	www.salon.com	Article
My First FOIA: Open records are for everyone	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres	bookshop.org	Book
Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan	bookshop.org	Book
Newsroom to Classroom	newslit.org	Classroom resource
No Time to Fail	www.notimetofailfilm.com	Documentary
Not normal: What local newsrooms can do now to prepare for a series of historic elections - By Jane Elizabeth for API	www.americanpressinstitute.org	Toolkit // Guide
On the Courthouse Lawn by Sherrilyn A Ifill	bookshop.org	Book
One Person No Vote	www.professorcarolanderson.org	Book
Open Government Guide	www.rcfp.org	Toolkit // Guide
Opening Access: How to push back on restrictive communication policies in education (and beyond)	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
Police Accountability – How to get hidden records	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
Police, Protesters and the Press	www.rcfp.org	Toolkit // Guide
Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell by Jason Johnson	bookshop.org	Book
PRESSTHINK	pressthink.org	Blog // Op-Ed
Protest Protocol – How journalists can stay safe in times of unrest	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta	bookshop.org	Book
Rep	www.ays.media	Podcast
Reporter’s Recording Guide	www.rcfp.org	Toolkit // Guide
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesney	bookshop.org	Book
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott	bookshop.org	Book
Seeing White	www.sceneonradio.org	Podcast
Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson	bookshop.org	Book
Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy by Peter Beattie	bookshop.org	Book
SourceWatch	www.sourcewatch.org	Toolkit // Guide
Steady: Dan Rather	steady.substack.com	Newsletter
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat	bookshop.org	Book
Suave	www.futuromediagroup.org	Podcast
Swamp Stories	www.swampstories.org	Podcast
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story created by Nikole Hannah-Jones	bookshop.org	Book
The Authoritarian Playbook from Protect Democracy	protectdemocracy.org	Toolkit // Guide
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords	www.pbs.org	Documentary
The Brainwashing of My Dad	www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com	Documentary
The GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists	gcatoolkit.org	Toolkit // Guide
The Orange Wave	straightwhiteamericanjesus.com	Podcast
The Passing of the Great Race	babel.hathitrust.org	Book
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt	bookshop.org	Book
The Roxane Gay Agenda	podcasts.apple.com	Podcast
The Run-Up	www.nytimes.com	Podcast
The View From Somewhere	www.viewfromsomewhere.com	BookPodcast
They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives by Wesley Lowery	bookshop.org	Book
This Land	crooked.com	Podcast
TransLash	translash.org	Podcast
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum	bookshop.org	Book
Votebeat’s Newsletters	www.votebeat.org	Newsletter
Want to be good for democracy? Be better at democracy.	medium.com	Article
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates	bookshop.org	Book
What Journalism Can Learn from Mutual Aid	www.cjr.org	Article
What journalists need to know about the psychology behind disinformation	www.pressclubinstitute.org	Article
What makes an election rumor go viral? Look at these 10 factors	www.niemanlab.org	Article
Who Counts? A 50-state look at how states are shutting people out of our democracy.	publicintegrity.org	Toolkit // Guide
Women in the Church of God in Christ by Anthea Butler	bookshop.org	Book