Skip to content
  • Harvard Kennedy School
  • Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
  • About Us
  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Donate
The Journalist's Resource logo
  • About Us
  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Donate
  • Criminal Justice
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Media
  • Politics & Government
  • Race & Gender
  • Criminal Justice
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Media
  • Politics & Government
  • Race & Gender

Expert Commentary

Two hands holding an iphone against a black background.
Health, Media

Visual health misinformation: A primer and research roundup

by Naseem S. Miller | January 11, 2023

With rapid advances in technology, it’s becoming easier to create and spread visual content that’s inaccurate, misleading and dangerous. There are similarities and differences between visual health misinformation and other types of visual misinformation.

Expert Commentary

investigative journalism academic research

Using academic research to do investigative journalism: 5 tips from our webinar

by Denise-Marie Ordway | January 6, 2023

For those who couldn’t attend our recent training, here are some of the tips Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Neil Bedi, criminologist Rachel Lovell and I shared.

Expert Commentary

far-right partisan media
Media, Politics & Government

Far-right, far-left media offer easier-to-read political news coverage than mainstream outlets, study suggests

by Denise-Marie Ordway | January 4, 2023

The study provides insights into “what journalists at reputable organizations might want to consider when they’re writing news about heavily partisan politics,” says researcher Jessica Sparks.

Expert Commentary

most-read
Media

These were the most-read pieces on The Journalist’s Resource in 2022

by Carmen Nobel | December 30, 2022

Here are the year’s 10 most popular posts, which helped journalists as they reported some of the biggest news stories of 2022.

Expert Commentary

team picks

The Journalist’s Resource team picks: Some of our favorite research roundups, tip sheets and explainers in 2022

by Clark Merrefield, Naseem S. Miller, Carmen Nobel and Denise-Marie Ordway | December 21, 2022

Our team took a few moments to reflect on some of the pieces that meant the most to us over the past 12 months.

Expert Commentary

Medical monitor wearing a Santa hat.
Health

A peer-reviewed Ho, Ho, Ho: Highlights from the BMJ’s Christmas issue

by Naseem S. Miller | December 21, 2022

After another tough year of news, we wanted to wrap up the year for journalists with a fun feature, courtesy of studies in this year’s BMJ Christmas issue.

Expert Commentary

violations
Economics, Environment, Health

When water safety violations arise, quick public notification can help prevent millions of dollars in costs

by Clark Merrefield | December 20, 2022

Federal rules no longer require community water systems to tell the public about certain bacterial water contamination discovered during routine testing. But new research finds that prompt notification leads people to buy safe, bottled water — and avoid illness.

Expert Commentary

A green street sign reads water pickup with an arrow pointing to the location.
Environment, Health, Race & Gender

Five years after Flint water crisis, mental health problems persist

by Naseem S. Miller | December 20, 2022

A study based on survey of Flint, Michigan, residents finds 1 in 5 Flint residents met the criteria for depression, 1 in 4 for PTSD and 1 in 10 for both depression and PTSD, estimates that exceed regional, national and global averages.

Expert Commentary

greenhouse gas
Environment, Health, Politics & Government

How the health care sector contributes to climate change: a research roundup and explainer

by Kerry Dooley Young | December 14, 2022

The medical system is responsible for a surprisingly large percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, and the toll is especially heavy in the U.S. We look at how governments are responding and what research reveals — and offer some timely story ideas for journalists.

Expert Commentary

Beige Book
Economics

Story ideas from the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book: Final edition of 2022

by Clark Merrefield | December 6, 2022

The Beige Book offers a high-level glimpse of current economic sentiment across the bank’s 12 districts. We reveal story ideas from the final edition for 2022, including rural health care woes in Mississippi and high-end office perks in Richmond.

Post pagination
← Previous 1 … 19 20 21 … 282 Next →
  • Know Your ResearchTip sheets and explainers to help journalists understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, investigate scientific misconduct and research errors, and avoid missteps when reporting on new studies and public opinion polls

Email Newsletter

  • Subscribe. It’s free!Sign up for our free newsletter! You’ll receive a weekly update of important new resources to inform your news coverage and consumption.

Editors’ Picks

Medicaid: A guide to understanding and covering potential cuts to the program
Health, Politics & Government

Medicaid: A guide to understanding and covering potential cuts to the program

April 30, 2025

To help finance trillions of dollars in tax cuts, Congressional Republicans are looking to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, which could impact Medicaid. We provide background, resources and research on the policies under consideration.

Expert Commentary

ICE’s recent detention data: What journalists need to understand
Politics & Government

ICE’s recent detention data: What journalists need to understand

April 21, 2025

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detained population flatlined in April, but there’s more to the numbers than meets the eye. It’s time to level up our understanding of detention data.

Childhood vaccines: What research shows about their safety and potential side effects
Health, Politics & Government

Childhood vaccines: What research shows about their safety and potential side effects

February 26, 2025

In this piece, we share reporting tips, explain how vaccine side effects are tracked in the U.S., and discuss research on the safety of childhood vaccines.

Sign up to receive a weekly e-mail newsletter from The Journalist's Resource.

Thank you for subscribing.

Harvard Kennedy School is committed to protecting your personal information. By completing this form, you agree to receive communications from The Journalist's Resource and to allow HKS to store your data. HKS will never sell your email address or other information to a third party. All communications will include the opportunity to unsubscribe.

Shorenstein Center Logo

A project of Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, The Journalist’s Resource curates, summarizes and contextualizes high-quality research on newsy public policy topics. We are supported by generous grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and individual contributors.

  • Home
  • About
  • How to make a donation to The Journalist’s Resource
  • RSS
  • Know Your Research
  • EU/EEA Privacy Disclosures

Find us:

  • JR on Facebook
  • X
Creative Commons BY ND

Unless otherwise noted, this site and its contents – with the exception of photographs – are licensed under a Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. That means you are free to republish our content both online and in print, and we encourage you to do so via the “republish this article” button. We only ask that you follow a few basic guidelines.