Election 2024

News Outlets are Conscious of the Need to Explain Election Reporting

The AP expects to make calls this year in 6,832 individual races, from the president to local elections and ballot measures.

Associated Press

Nov 2, 2024 — 5 min read

Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace, right, looks over a headline with deputy managing editor for operations David Scott in the newsroom at the Associated Press in Washington, Feb. 5, 2020, by Jenny Kane/AP

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2024 (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand next week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848.

There’s an even greater priority this year on explaining that process to outsiders.

The AP has already run a series of stories outlining how everything works, and has a team of reporters who will be assigned on election night to write in plain language why it is “calling” key individual states for presidential candidates Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.

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