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Truth of the Matter

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Giving you clarity during this election season

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With the U.S. election only 39 days away, many of you may be feeling a bit inundated with all of the news coverage. You can rely on Poynter to cut through the clutter and help you make sense of it all.

Poynter senior media writer Tom Jones critiques the media in The Poynter Report, a weekday newsletter where Tom holds reporters and news organizations accountable for their choices and helps you understand how those choices impact your everyday lives. Just this week alone, Tom’s insight includes invaluable tips to prepare you for Nov. 3, how the passing of Justice Ginsburg could affect the election, and how journalists are repeating the mistakes they made while covering the 2016 election.

And be sure to check out our PolitiFact team’s report on best practices for journalists covering the 2020 election so you can get a clear idea of what to expect from the news you consume.

Keeping you informed on the latest coronavirus news

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This week we passed the grim milestone of 200,000 American deaths from the coronavirus. And with flu season almost upon us, we could be facing an increase in COVID-19 cases. Poynter’s Al Tompkins continues to keep you well informed on all of the latest coronavirus updates in his weekday newsletter, Covering COVID-19. You can learn why the CDC’s recent flip-flop on COVID-19 guidance matters, if there’s a possibility of a wave of COVID-19 in Europe heading to America, and a special focus on how newsrooms are tracking the coronavirus when state governments won’t.

Providing you opportunities to engage with journalists you can’t get anywhere else

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We’re hitting the pause button on this monthly newsletter for the remainder of 2020 so we can focus on bringing you a number of exciting opportunities to engage with Poynter in a healthy dialogue about truth, trust, journalism and American democracy.

Join us on Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. Eastern for an online community conversation with NBC News political director and host of “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd. During this 45-minute event, you’ll enjoy a lively conversation between Todd and Poynter’s Tom Jones about some of the new challenges that journalists who cover politics are facing, what election-watchers can expect from coverage on Election Day and a behind-the-scenes look at America's No. 1-rated Sunday morning political news program.
 



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Our PolitiFact team will be live fact-checking the upcoming presidential and vice-presidential debates. Stay on top of the truth during this critical election season by checking out their fact-checks on their website or on Twitter.

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