How can we prioritize candidate and ballot question coverage?

News organizations often use blueprints from previous years to plot out their election coverage plans. But while past coverage can help guide your planning, it is important not to make it the default. The electorate in your coverage area may have changed. New issues have emerged since the last big election. What worked then may not work this time around.

Here are four agenda items to help you overcome the impulse to follow “the way we’ve always done it” model.

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