This week, I have lots to share, but want to start with this note from PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman, who needs your feedback. 

For PolitiFact, I am going to write a story about the laws journalists need to know for covering elections. It will cover topics such as electioneering neutral zones, exit polling and access to election records. I am using some guides for 2020 including the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Such guides were generally written before the protests and mayhem following Election Day in 2020. From your experience covering 2020, any thoughts on additional laws such a guide should cover or did you encounter any legal questions/problems pertaining to election coverage? Thanks much. - Amy

You can respond to this email and I’ll forward it to Amy, or you can reach her directly at [email protected]. 

And now, on to the links I’ve been storing for the last month!

Learn: 

Poynter is looking for newsrooms to take part in a pilot project fighting online harassment. The deadline is today!  

Local Media Association rounded up five strategies that grew reader revenue for newsrooms that participated in the Meta Journalism Project’s Reader Revenue Accelerator program. They include launching a readership onboarding program. 

As part of her RJI Fellowship, McClatchy’s Hannah Wise created a toolkit for newsrooms to better serve the disability community.

Sign up for Poynter’s Summit for Reporters and Editors. It’s online in July and led by the Dallas Morning News’ Tom Huang. 

Build:

Read William Lager in RJI about the Girl Scout who made a patch highlighting women in journalism. (If my daughter was still a Scout, I’d LOVE to use this. Here was my workaround.)

Marfa Public Radio now has a weekly Spanish newscast. 

A NOTE FROM OUR SPONSOR:

Call for Nominations: 2022 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award

Colby College seeks nominations for the 2022 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism. The award recognizes:

• Integrity, without which no news organization can function in its role as public servant.
• Craftsmanship, without which no one can succeed as a journalist.
• Character, intelligence, and courage.
• Potential of the work to stimulate engaging campus conversations around important issues.

The deadline for nominations, including a statement explaining the reason for your nomination, is Friday, May 6, 2022. Details here ▸

Congrats:

Congrats to the 2022-2023 cohort of Frontline’s Local Journalism Initiative. Newsrooms include “The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina; The Public’s Radio in Rhode Island; WFAE, a public radio station and NPR affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina; and The Texas Newsroom, which will lead a collaboration of public radio stations across Texas. FRONTLINE helps pay journalists’ salaries, provides newsrooms with editorial guidance, advice about digital or video storytelling, and expertise about how to connect journalism with diverse audiences.”

The Oregon Media Collaborative has launched and includes more than 60 newsrooms that are working together to cover the 2022 governor’s race. 

Read: 

My colleague Rick Edmonds wrote about Houston’s $20 million news startup. 

My colleague Amaris Castillo wrote about a tap-dancing journalist. 

And Poynter’s Kelly McBride found ethics questions in Politico's Supreme Court leak. 

That’s it for me. The countdown to the end of school is on, which means annual state testing is on, which means the countdown to the end of school is really on.

Kristen