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These working groups are meant to work together, which means they'll be driven by your questions and participation. We'll be there to facilitate that process, but please bring your questions, concerns and examples. Election reporting is tougher than ever and collaborating to solve problems or surface new barriers is essential to fulfilling our goals for this election season. We're a friendly crew, we promise!
The groups are looking to solve some big picture issues by looking at emerging trends, highlighting new/old resources, finding different things to try and affirming best practices in the process. Here are some big questions and potential threads that we've started to follow:
- Audience, community and civic engagement: Who are our intended audiences for election reporting? How do we consider the needs of underserved communities, the politically disengaged or those who are exhausted by the news? We'll look at tracking source diversity, election process and governance, redefining civic engagement to expand beyond voting and working through assumptions that misguide our understanding of audience, community and civic engagement.
- Better voter guides: What is the right mix of information, visualizations and user experience considerations in voter guides? What else can we offer or need to share with audiences? We'll try to find examples of exemplary voter guides and the features that make them stand out. We'll also examine what we can do less of in the process of prioritizing how we spend time and resources on this common newsroom product.
- Data and data visualizations: How do we present accurate information in a rapidly shifting environment like election day (or week, to be more accurate)? What can we do to give people a more complete picture? We'll consider what role data plays in setting expectations for the public and how data viz work can be a useful tool in explaining what's going on during a time of uncertainty. We'll look at the limitations of local data and consider any alternatives we might have for informing the public about our decentralized system of elections.
