Rules
International conflict reporting problems and fixes
Conflict reporting fixes for unattributed claims, recycled media, casualty totals, legal overreach, false balance, map certainty, document confusion, and risk.
Elections and civic processes: a reporting guide
Election reporting guide to eligibility, registration, ballots, unofficial results, canvass, audits, certification, recounts, finance, courts, and corrections.
Maintenance
International conflict reporting checklist
Conflict checklist for attribution, source chains, location, timing, casualty methods, legal labels, displacement, official records, publication harm, and updates.
Guides
How to verify a conflict claim before publication
Freeze the original post, date the media, audit the casualty count, and label every claim said, verified, or disputed before publication reaches readers.
Guides
International events and conflicts: a reporting guide
A guide to sourcing conflict claims: primary UN records, casualty counts that name their method, legal labels, and when to withhold a location.
Rules
Science and technology reporting problems and fixes
Announcement coverage fails when a proposal reads as a result, so label status, compare like with like, and track versions after publication.
Maintenance
Science announcement reporting checklist
Science announcement checklist for source status, methods, sample, comparison, uncertainty, funding, conflicts, data, practical readiness, headlines, and updates.
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Guides
Elections and civic processes: a reporting guide
Election reporting guide to eligibility, registration, ballots, unofficial results, canvass, audits, certification, recounts, finance, courts, and corrections.
Guides
International events and conflicts: a reporting guide
A guide to sourcing conflict claims: primary UN records, casualty counts that name their method, legal labels, and when to withhold a location.
Guides
Science and technology announcements: a reporting guide
How to turn a science or technology announcement into a verifiable story, from the paper and dataset to funding, corrections and later versions.
Features
Why Atlanta, Seattle and Denver frame the same national story differently
Daily news explainers in Atlanta, Seattle and Denver diverge on the same national story because ownership, wire dependence and audience habits differ.
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Chicago water main breaks and boil orders, explained for residents
A Chicago boil order follows water main breaks that cause pressure loss, and the city lifts it only after two clean rounds of bacteria samples.
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Federal vs state emergency alerts, and who sends what during a storm
Four separate systems carry storm warnings: FEMA's IPAWS pipeline, Weather Service products, phone alerts and broadcast. Each has its own trigger.
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Guides
Elections and civic processes: a reporting guide
Election reporting guide to eligibility, registration, ballots, unofficial results, canvass, audits, certification, recounts, finance, courts, and corrections.
Rules
International conflict reporting problems and fixes
Conflict reporting fixes for unattributed claims, recycled media, casualty totals, legal overreach, false balance, map certainty, document confusion, and risk.
Maintenance
International conflict reporting checklist
Conflict checklist for attribution, source chains, location, timing, casualty methods, legal labels, displacement, official records, publication harm, and updates.
Guides
How to verify a conflict claim before publication
Freeze the original post, date the media, audit the casualty count, and label every claim said, verified, or disputed before publication reaches readers.