The Election SOS newsletter is a dedicated resource for journalists covering the 2020 election. We provide critical resources to help with your coverage, safety and service.
Free Extremism Support from Election SOS
The riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan.6 has further surfaced the urgent need for resources on extremist movements in the U.S. To help journalists navigate the complex world of extremism, Election SOS has added a resident expert. The expert will provide readings, advice, and resources to help you better understand and report on extremist groups, as well as 1-1 support for journalists.
Election SOS compiled an overview of the events and the key insight you’ll need to contextualize your reporting. We encourage you to share the do's and don'ts with your colleagues, too.
If you are covering the inauguration and state capitols, we urge you to prioritize your safety and prepare ahead. Please use this advice and resources to prepare:
Consider NOT showing off your press credentials, keep them with you, but avoid displaying it openly.
Join our upcoming workshop on accountability after the capitol riots on Jan. 21. We're proud that the panelists will present perspectives from history and international contemporary examples to help journalists see the many ways they can contribute, and not repeat history.
Election SOS Resource Database curates top links from other organizations and partners with advice, reports, databases and other useful tools for journalists covering the elections. The database is continuously updated with current and evergreen content organized by topics like physical safety, covering hate and more.
‘Call This What It Was’: Elections Experts Share Guidance For Journalists After Capitol Riots
The Election SOS team turned to our network of vetted elections experts to ask them what advice they have for journalists covering this moment. We received responses from election lawyers, misinformation experts, and history professors, among others, who offered a range of perspectives of what stories need to be told and what language to use. Read a compilation of their recommendations.
How might journalists best navigate this new moment of uncertainty and heightened fear across the country? To learn more, choose one of the three available dates (Jan. 18, 19 & 22) for an interactive workshop on covering insurrection.
This free training on mental health and trauma in journalism covers everything from how to interview survivors to practicing self-care. When: Jan. 28, 6:30 - 8 pm CT.
The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule.
The notion that political violence simply emerges out of economic desperation, rather than ideology, is comforting. But it’s false. Throughout American history, political violence has often been guided, initiated, and perpetrated by respectable people from educated middle- and upper-class backgrounds.
CNN Politics examined some common First Amendment arguments, illuminated and debunked by constitutional experts. An excellent example of well-organized service journalism explaining first amendment arguments by constitutional experts.
As the House voted to formally charge President Trump with inciting violence against the government of the United States, 10 Republicans cast their votes in favor. Read the full piece to check out a helpful flowchart on how the second impeachment could play out.
Arie Perliger analyzes the second wave of the American militia movement and provides historical and operational context for the militias’ contemporary evolution.
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