4 tips for covering COVID-19 vaccine boosters
…fully vaccinated adults who want them. New York City joined in on Nov. 15. On Nov. 19, the FDA gave emergency use authorization for booster shots of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech…
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7 tips for finding local stories in The Lancet’s 2021 health and climate change report
…Health at University College London Energy Institute. “Flooding in West of England can disrupt ambulatory care services because they can’t get people to hospitals.” Ask officials at your city and…
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Econofact: Another great source for getting up to speed on newsy economic policy topics
…laureates Paul Krugman, a professor at the City University of New York and New York Times columnist, and Michael Kremer, a professor at the University of Chicago. I recently spoke…
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The Journalist’s Resource team picks for 2021
…ethnicity. Pair this with another piece by Merrefield, “How research covering more than 5,000 years sheds light on income inequality today,” which highlights a study that ties income inequality to…
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A health care journalist’s guide to prior authorization
…opacity of frequently changing formularies and prior authorization requirements means that prescribing physicians do not know which treatment options will be filled without delays,” writes Resneck, who also is professor…
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Real earnings in America: Parsing strong wage growth amid high inflation
…seen the greatest gains of all, more than 111%. (Think couriers delivering documents and packages within a single city or urban area.) But, based on this data series, we don’t…
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1 in 4 journalists surveyed rarely or never seek out peer-reviewed research to learn about beat topics
…findings apply only to the sample of people who participated in a study or are generalizable to a much larger population, such as an entire city or country or even…
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Research: People trust inflation forecasts from the Fed more than traditional news stories about those forecasts
…used forward guidance since the early 2000s. But transparency wasn’t always in fashion at the Federal Reserve. Former Chair Alan Greenspan tried to avoid rattling markets through opacity, rather than…
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How they did it: Wichita Eagle reporters expose a broken EMS system
…seem to be a good department-level or city– or county- or state-level or federal-level tracking of outcomes for 911 calls. NM: You mentioned a database of response times from 911…
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Antisemitism on the rise: A research roundup
…similar imagery shared pre-Internet and in the modern era, Kirschen says, is the breadth of dissemination: “What once might have only circulated around a small city, state, or even country…
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