Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.

When we surveyed our audience in 2021 to ask why journalists don’t use academic research more often, 60% of journalists who responded cited academic journal paywalls as a barrier.. Some journalists ...

The number of people held in immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement essentially flatlined this month. The total detained population—counted as beds occupied at midnight on a ...

Journalists can use these 10 tools to examine education data in areas such as student achievement, school segregation and ...

She joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer.Her ...

School board elections have grown increasingly politicized in recent years as conservative politicians and advocacy organizations push to restrict how public schools address issues related to race, ...

If an official or politician is spreading misinformation, be quick to point it out. Instead of quoting them directly and amplifying it, provide the information that is correct, and report what the ...

El Niño and La Niña patterns last several months to a year, though sometimes longer. A strong El Niño is often followed the next year by a La Niña pattern. “ENSO is the most predictable climate driver ...

Rape kits often went untested in Cleveland before police there discovered the remains of 11 women in late October 2009 at the home of serial rapist and killer Anthony Sowell, who was sentenced to ...

Government officials and public health leaders worldwide have worked around the clock battling the new coronavirus. Meanwhile, another pandemic requires their attention — the anxiety, depression, ...

“The field of media studies has consistently demonstrated that news coverage meaningfully shapes public perceptions,” the authors write. For their experiment, the authors recruited a nationally ...

In early 2023 Angwin left The Markup and founded Proof News, a nonprofit news outlet that uses the scientific method to guide its investigations. Angwin is also a 2023-2024 Walter Shorenstein Media ...