Covering minority communities: Lessons I learned from my HBCU investigation
Journalist’s Resource’s managing editor, Denise-Marie Ordway, looks back at how she could have improved her coverage of college hazing and other problems at a Florida HBCU.
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Social distancing time frames: How our expectations affect compliance
In a new NBER working paper, economists surveyed Italian residents to explore what happens when expectations are shattered about how long social distancing measures, like self-isolation, would last.
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The problem with using ‘patient zero’ and ‘party zero’ in coronavirus news
Infectious disease epidemiologist Helen Jenkins explains why it’s irresponsible and inaccurate to uses terms such as ‘patient zero’ and ‘party zero’ in coronavirus news coverage.
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Covering biomedical research preprints amid the coronavirus: 6 things to know
Journalists need to know these six things to cover coronavirus-related preprints, research papers that haven’t been peer reviewed by experts.
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5 things to know about the April jobs report
Former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica Groshen with 5 things to know about the unemployment numbers coming April 3.
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Rural broadband in the time of coronavirus
Americans who can telework are avoiding the office due to the coronavirus pandemic. But not everyone can telework, because they lack stable broadband access. Many of those who lack broadband live in rural areas.
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By the numbers: The federal coronavirus economic relief package
On March 27, President Donald Trump signed a stimulus bill unlike any before. Here are the numbers to know for businesses and individuals in the coronavirus economic relief package.
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How infectious disease outbreaks affect mental health: Insights for coronavirus coverage
To help journalists cover the psychological effects of the coronavirus, we gathered research that looks at how the public and health care workers reacted to prior outbreaks.
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A brief introduction to differential privacy: A data protection plan for the 2020 census
To help you understand the privacy protection plan for the 2020 census, we offer this graphic introduction to differential privacy by comics journalist Josh Neufeld.
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Crowdsourcing truth and how journalists can avoid spreading coronavirus misinformation: Q and A with MIT professor David Rand
MIT professor David Rand helps social media users get a grip on the vast ecosystem of coronavirus misinformation — and offers advice for how journalists can avoid being part of the problem.
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