MISSION
We Inform Journalists So They Can Inform Their Communities.
The Pro-Democracy Information Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting democratic values through resonant journalism delivered in innovative ways.
Our Theory of Change
We equip local journalists
With the tools to identify and safely report on extremism and political violence
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Journalists alert their communities
To emerging threats through resonant, nonpartisan reporting
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Communities are better informed and equipped to act early
They gain an understanding of threats and can decide how to respond
We know local journalism.
The Pro-Democracy Information Lab is an off-shoot of its founder Kyle Spencer’s more than 30 years of daily reporting and her work researching her book Raising Them Right (Harper Collins, 2022) which focuses on the rapid spread of misinformation and anti-democratic ideas that so threaten our civic life.
Spencer is a lover of local news and spent the early part of her career at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. She spent more than ten years as a contributor to The New York Times, writing about national issues from a local lens.
