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How The Associated Press plans to report 2020 election results

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The National Task Force on Election Crises wants reporters to know exactly how presidential elections are conducted and decided.

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Dale Burk, a longtime Montana journalist and a 1976 Nieman Fellow, dies at 83

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announces fellows in the class of 2020-2021

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Brandy Ayers, longtime Alabama newspaper executive and NF ’68, dies at 85

Maria Hinojosa receives the 2020 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence at Harvard

Pamela Colloff’s probe of jailhouse informants for ProPublica, New York Times wins Taylor Award

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