Why some newspapers are abandoning endorsements

The newspaper endorsement: It's a hardy trademark of election season, a platform for editorial boards to dispense their wisdom, even a source of information for data journalists. But the traditional endorsement is increasingly being tinkered with – or dropped altogether. Dozens of newspapers have stopped making endorsements over the last two election cycles, often citing doubts about their impact and fears that, in a polarized era, endorsements put the credibility of the paper's political coverage at risk.  Read more from the Columbia Journalism Review.

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