“This publication presents EED’s work in the area of independent media, and reflects on lessons learned in six years of media and democracy support” and analyzes “worrying trends and challenges faced…
This report “presents 31 recommendations - across political institutions, political culture, and civil society - which are the product of...nearly 50 listening sessions with Americans... which sought…
“This report summarizes findings from the first Yankelovich Democracy Monitor, a nationally representative survey of 1,000 American adults 18 and older. The survey was fielded from September 14…
News media “has suffered from a decline in public confidence... A key question... is whether that trust is lost for good….Gallup asked a representative sample of U.S. adults to discuss key factors…
“The low levels of public trust in the nation's polarized media environment have left open the possibility for dangerous false narratives to take root” and…”the striking trends documented in these…
In a sort of return “to the trauma of the late '60s, with a pandemic added...Newsrooms across the nation are...having fierce internal debates about what constitutes good coverage and staffing”.…
Freedom of expression brings the spread of “false, offensive, harmful” content. “As more aspects of our lives increasingly move online, we must contend with operating in a digital public square owned…
Surveys show “declining confidence in democracy among Americans. While many factors contribute to this growing sense that democracy is weakening, there are practical and thoughtful efforts underway…
This report examines how “thousands of local newspapers have closed” and “left millions of Americans without a vital source of local news and deprived communities of an institution essential for…
This report demonstrates “deep polarization and growing tribalism” in the U.S. and both “shows that this polarization is rooted in something deeper than political opinions and disagreements” and…
