Let’s talk about newspaper editorial board endorsements.
These election year OPINION pieces often end up causing some confusion among readers and politicians. 1/

Candidate endorsements are decided by editorial boards, which are made up of OPINION writers, a newspaper’s top editor and the publisher, who either is the actual owner or represents the ownership group. 2/

What an editorial board DOES NOT represent is the news operation. Reporters who cover city, county and state politics and government DO NOT endorse candidates and DO NOT have anything to do with editorials or endorsements. 3/

In most cases, editorial boards conduct their own interviews during election season and ask their own questions. This process can often complicate the work of reporters, who are sometimes left to gather news from unhappy or confused campaigns. 4/

Readers and candidates can confuse an endorsement with a profile or other news coverage. 3/10 don’t know the difference between an editorial and news story and half don’t know what an “op-ed” is. 5/5 https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/americans-and-the-news-media/