The progressive Knight Foundation (KF) is providing training to journalists ahead of the 2024 general election on election related legal issues. KF announced in July that the organization would provide nearly $7 million for election news coverage “primarily in swing states.” It will also provide journalists with “explainers and training …from The Associated Press.” Resources can be found at the Knight Election Hub.
“One local news organization in each swing state will also receive a grant to serve as an ‘anchor,’ bolstering the distribution of election-related coverage with editorial partners in their state.” So far, most of KF’s grants in Arizona have gone to Arizona State University.
KF is putting on the training with the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy. The speakers for the first training session are mostly progressive activists in the area of law and elections. Heather Gerken (pictured above, left), dean of Yale Law School, clerked for former leftist Supreme Court Justice David Souter and worked as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama and on his reelection team. She writes extensively about democracy, and another article of hers was titled “Real State Power Means Getting in the Obama Care Game.”
Ben Ginsberg (pictured above, right) of the Hoover Institution, who has represented Republican political candidates, also has progressive leanings. He wrote an article for The Washington Post in 2020 criticizing Donald Trump for stating there was election fraud, and a follow-up piece shortly after stating that election fraud concerns were destroying the Republican Party. He co-chaired the Presidential Commission on Election Administration under Obama and testified before the Democrats’ J6 committee.
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