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Improving Local Coverage

By Greg Marx / May 20th

Greg Marx, Staff writer for CJR and Co-editor for the United States Project, outlines strategies used for improving local coverage and reducing the spread of misinformation during the 2012 Presidential Campaign.  

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What We’re Reading

By Justin Anderson / May 17th

At the Democracy Fund, we work to keep up with the latest research, reports, and analyses to deepen our understanding of our democracy and what we can do to strengthen it.  

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7 Submissions Worth Watching at Looking@Democracy

By Joe Goldman / May 11th

There are just a few days left to vote on the submissions for the MacArthur Foundation’s Looking@Democracy competition. $100,000 in prizes are available for short, provocative media pieces that either tell a story about why government is important to our lives or tell how we might together strengthen American democracy.  

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Campaign Finance Research and Experiments

By Joe Goldman / April 30th

The Democracy Fund approved two new research grants earlier this spring that will help us to better understand more about how certain campaign finance reforms really work in practice, as well as the potential role of technology to improve the regulation of campaign financing.

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What We’re Reading

By Justin Anderson / May 3rd

At the Democracy Fund, we work to keep up with the latest research, reports, and analyses to deepen our understanding of our democracy and what we can do to strengthen it.