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What U.S. audiences want newsrooms to disclose about their AI use: 4 insights from Trusting News

by Clark Merrefield | July 14, 2025

News audiences want to know when journalists use artificial intelligence. Here’s how news organizations can disclose their use of AI, with tips from Trusting News.

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Introducing The Journalist’s Resource reader quiz

by Carmen Nobel | July 9, 2025

Brush up on some of the topics we’ve covered recently — and show off what you know.

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How to make sense of ICE arrest data

by Austin Kocher | June 30, 2025

An immigration scholar guides us through the process of analyzing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest data, based on datasets published by the Data Deportation Project.

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The national debt: How and why the US government borrows money

by Clark Merrefield | June 25, 2025

The US government is paying $1 trillion a year in interest on its debt. With interest costs outpacing national defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to audiences.

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Child deaths in hot cars: Data and research on pediatric vehicular heatstroke

by Denise-Marie Ordway | June 25, 2025

We summarize key research on child deaths in parked vehicles, including how often caregivers face criminal prosecution and why otherwise attentive parents sometimes forget infants in hot cars.

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Covering health misinformation: What journalists need to rethink

by Naseem S. Miller | June 17, 2025

Journalists and public health experts shared 12 strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference.

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