The Climate on the Ballot newsletter, from Covering Climate Now, is delivered every Monday and covers a topic to help journalists integrate climate into their newsroom’s campaign reporting. It is
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“Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pregnant people continue to have difficulty accessing abortion care across the country. During a panel at HJ24, a
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“Experts and journalists who have researched and worked with trauma survivors say that practicing trauma-informed journalism not only leads to better, more accurate stories, but also helps protect survivors from
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A new study from researchers at Cornell University found that how health disparities were framed in news articles had an impact on readers’ perceptions of their risks. AHCJ spoke with
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“Journalists can’t report accurately on research involving human subjects without knowing certain details about the sample of people researchers studied. It’s important to know, for example, whether researchers used a
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Locally Sourced is a biweekly newsletter from Covering Climate Now. It’s for journalists working on local angles of the climate story. Each edition includes story idea suggestions, reporting tips, and
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SciLine, based at AAAS, and the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin collaborated on a survey of journalists and scientists who use SciLine’s service matching
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“We train scientists and health professionals to collect and analyze evidence. Yet we’re far less intentional about equipping them to credibly communicate it in an increasingly skeptical and fragmented world.”
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A May 2024 study, published in BMC Public Health, examines local television news clips covering gun violence. The study “reveals an overwhelming reliance on law enforcement narratives, missing deeper insights
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“This feature story, a collaboration between environmental and investigative reporters at the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer, is the flagship story from the two papers’ Big Poultry
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“There is consensus that climate journalism should be accurate, well-sourced, and reflect complexity and uncertainty as appropriate… But what about the huge range of audiences around the world? And the
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“In addition to being obviously uncomfortable, extreme heat is a public health issue.” This guide, an issue of Covering Climate Now’s biweekly newsletter, includes reporting tips, story examples, and resources
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“This handy and entertaining book provides the basics of goal-oriented science communication. It is aimed at career-building scientists and anyone who wants to take their first steps in the field
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Behavioral scientist Uri Simonsohn shares his thoughts on how journalists can improve their coverage of academic fraud and misconduct. Simonsohn, who coauthors the Data Colada blog (https://datacolada.org/), urges reporters to
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“As artificial intelligence infiltrates virtually every aspect of life, more states in the U.S. are seeking to regulate (or at least monitor) its use. Many are passing legislation, issuing policy
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“Extreme heat is harming our societies. From children forced to stay away from school and agricultural workers struggling out in the field, to increased demand for electricity and health services,
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“ProPublica journalists Al Shaw and Lisa Song sifted through tons of data to deliver “Poison in the Air,” an award-winning reporting series in which they — alongside fellow reporters Lylla
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“Putting a portfolio together is not complicated once you have a few assignments under your belt. But it’s a different story for newbies, and I can’t count how many first-time
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This multimedia article explores the James Webb Space Telescope’s extensive backstory and profiles scientists working on the $10 billion project. The article earned Quanta Magazine the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in
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“Climate change remains one of the most challenging stories for media to cover well. The sheer magnitude of the problem, and its unrelenting slow burn of destruction, makes it difficult
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“New Boston University–led research has found historically excluded and marginalized Americans may be more vulnerable to inaccurate notions about science due to ‘structural and institutional power dynamics.’” The Brink, Boston
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“This tip sheet outlines some of the many ways researchers can help the news media cover research accurately, starting with the journalists who interview them about their own work.” It
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In this feature for Science magazine, freelance science journalist Joshua Sokol describes how Indigenous Maya are working with Western scholars to understand the ancient Maya astronomy buried by Spanish colonists
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Science Magazine contributing writer Kai Kupferschmidt has “witnessed how social media — and the personalities who populate it — can impact the public’s ability to distinguish facts from fiction. Now,
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“The public often turns to science for accurate health information, which, in an ideal world, would be error free. However, limitations of scientific institutions and scientific processes can sometimes amplify
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