Betsy Ladyzhets, Author at The Journalist's Resource

Betsy Ladyzhets

Betsy Ladyzhets is CASW Connector’s community manager, keeping the Connector database up to date, working with readers to continually improve the website, and writing and producing the newsletter. Betsy is an independent science, health, and data journalist focused on COVID-19 and the future of public health. She is an editor at The Sick Times, a new nonprofit publication chronicling the Long Covid crisis, which she co-founded after more than three years of writing the COVID-19 Data Dispatch blog and newsletter. She was recently a journalism fellow at MuckRock where she contributed to award-winning COVID-19 investigations. Her freelance work has appeared in Science News, The Atlantic, STAT News, FiveThirtyEight, MIT Technology Review, and other national publications.

Health, Media, Politics & Government

Reporting on hot-button topics as a science writer: Lessons from abortion coverage

by Betsy Ladyzhets | July 19, 2024

We share a video recording, resources, and tips from a recent CASW Connector Chat with an NPR reporter and a social scientist who studies abortion news coverage.

Editors’ Picks

Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Health, Politics & Government

What’s a nationally representative sample? 5 things you need to know to report accurately on research

July 9, 2024

Knowing what a nationally representative sample is — and isn’t — will help you avoid errors in covering clinical trials, opinion polls and other research.

Criminal Justice, Health, Media

Research highlights need for public health approach in news reporting of gun violence

June 25, 2024

The study, published in BMC Public Health, reveals an overwhelming reliance on law enforcement narratives, missing deeper insights into the root causes and potential solutions to gun violence.

Education, Politics & Government

School board elections in the US: What research shows

May 28, 2024

To help journalists contextualize coverage of school board elections, we spotlight research on who votes in these elections, the role of teachers unions and how new board members can influence school segregation, funding and test scores.