MADISON – The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison are partnering on a project to support election integrity this fall, the organizations announced Monday.
The effort, supported by $83,000 in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will focus on developing election integrity resource kits for citizens and journalists in addition to investigative reporting on voting issues in Wisconsin. Howard Hardee, a former Wisconsin State Journal reporter and current local news fellow at First Draft News, will be the lead reporter on the project.
WCIJ executive director Andy Hall said in the project announcement that he was excited to be able to focus directly on democratic participation and uncovering any effort to undermine it. Kathleen Bartzen Culver, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, said the partnership would allow the two organizations to provide journalists with best practices for covering an election that “promises to be difficult to cover.”
