A new initiative led by the Associated Press (AP), supported by CMF member the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, aims to increase civic literacy and engagement while addressing misinformation and disinformation. 

The effort is focused on providing solutions-based journalism rather than highlighting problems and extreme voices.

With support from Mott Foundation and several other organizations, AP will work to help the public better understand their government by bolstering its explanatory journalism and providing information and tools to local newsrooms to aid their coverage.

AP will also deepen its reporting on the impact of elections and election-related policy on communities of color.

“With a reporter in every statehouse, AP is uniquely positioned to cover democracy in the U.S. and amplify the ideas and issues that connect people,” AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace said. “Not only have we covered elections across the country since 1848, but we have tallied votes and declared election winners for the better part of two centuries. This investment to ramp up our portfolio builds on AP’s extraordinary role in the American democracy.”

The Mott Foundation’s support will provide broad support for the initiative in its entirety.

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