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Lessons in coordinating a large collaboration around a single news event

This case study was created to document the Electionland project and to provide a playbook for organizations looking to create collaborative reporting projects of their own.

Electionland in 2016 was the largest collaborative journalism project ever organized around a single news event. The Electionland case study provides a deep and thorough review of how the project was put together, what it accomplished and what everyone involved learned.