6 tips for journalists covering teachers unions
We offer reporters tips on covering teachers unions, including developing union sources and understanding public school teachers’ pay systems.
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6 reporting tips for covering Islam in America
Hannah Allam, who has reported on the lives of American Muslims for many years, shared six tips for providing an accurate portrayal of Muslims and Islam in America.
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Five ways to find public figures’ yearbooks
Often, yearbooks are available to journalists – you only need to know where to look. We’ve compiled resources to aid your search.
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Covering viral research: Tips from Harvard’s ‘6 french fries’ guy
Eric Rimm reflects on his viral comments about French fries, offering pointers for how to cover research that’s getting a lot of media attention.
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Skydivers don’t need parachutes, scientists don’t actually find
A new study serves as an example for all journalists who swoop in and out of academic papers without much care.
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7 tips on health care reporting from POLITICO’s Joanne Kenen
Journalist’s Resource spoke to POLITICO’s health care editor, Joanne Kenen, to clarify common areas of confusion in health care reporting.
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Interviewing white-collar criminals: 6 tips from Harvard Business School’s Eugene Soltes
Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes, whose research focuses on corporate misconduct and fraud, offers tips on interviewing white-collar criminals such as Bernie Madoff from behind bars.
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Readers respond: Pro tips from scholars for journalists (and vice versa)
Among the main takeaways: Journalists would like academics to understand their tight deadlines. And academics would like journalists to take a statistics class.
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Covering gun violence in America: Tips from German Lopez
Vox’s German Lopez discusses gun violence in the U.S. and what journalists can do to improve their coverage.
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The margin of error: 7 tips for journalists covering polls and surveys
To help journalists understand margin of error and how to correctly interpret data from surveys and polls, we’ve put together a list of seven tips, including clarifying examples.
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