Today’s journalists use sophisticated tools to scrape, analyze, and visualize complex datasets, transforming investigative reporting across fields like political corruption and climate change. Yet this technological evolution comes at a critical moment when major tech platforms are scaling back fact-checking, making data-driven journalism even more crucial to maintaining public trust. From “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Riveting storytelling for all of America,” the recent shift in Washington Post’s mission indicates that journalism may be at a critical crossroad.

Join us for a conversation with Alexander Howard, digital governance expert, democracy advocate at Demand Progress, and deputy director at the Sunlight Foundation. How can we ensure rigorous reporting in an era of rapid content production? What standards should govern AI journalism? And can journalistic integrity survive as tech platforms retreat from fact-checking?

Hosted by: Alexa Raad and Leslie Daigle.

Further reading:

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• Has the Tide Turned for TikTok, Telegram and X?
  
  
• The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism
  
  
• The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
  
  
• A Pulitzer winner quits ‘Washington Post’ after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
  
  
• Meta Ditches Fact-Checks For X-Style Community Notes—Zuckerberg Says It Will Restore ‘Free Expression’
  
  
• Civic Texts
  

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