Digging deep: Strategies for investigations
Tips from seasoned investigative journalists on FOIA requests, working with sources and more.
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How to cover an epidemic
A tip sheet for reporters writing about infectious diseases.
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Health care expenses lower for food stamp recipients
People who get food stamps have lower annual health care expenses than other low-income adults.
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Skipped breast cancer treatments common
Thirty percent of women with breast cancer reported skipping additional treatment following surgery.
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A dose of research on the flu shot
Who gets the flu shot, who doesn’t, and why?
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White children more likely to receive unnecessary antibiotics
White children are more likely to receive unnecessary antibiotics for viral illnesses during emergency room visits than their black and Hispanic peers.
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Get out the vote: Understanding ranked-choice elections
An explainer on proportional representation, with a focus on ranked-choice voting.
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Opiate prescriptions linked to recovery delays in elderly
Elderly patients who were prescribed opiates had longer hospital stays, on average, than those who were not.
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Maternal education: A matter of life and death for infants?
Infants whose mothers lack a high school education are, in some states, more than twice as likely to die as those born to mothers with four years of college or more.
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4 tips for understanding statistics from FiveThirtyEight’s Christie Aschwanden
Tips for numbers-shy journalists on understanding and writing about statistics.
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