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This writing advice becomes now and then more urgent. I dragged it out to help reporters covering the Great Recession. I am sharing it again to see if it can stand up to the test of a great …
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Roy Peter Clark | Poynter
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11/19/20
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The UK has suffered through one of the worst coronavirus epidemics in the world, with more than 650,000 confirmed cases by mid-October, over 43,000 casualties across the country, and disadvantaged, …
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Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Dr Richard Fletcher, Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos and Felix Simon | Reuters Institute
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10/28/20
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many journalists and newsrooms in one way or another. Whether it's burnout from working extra hours, layoffs at a local news publication, or misinformation …
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Taylor Mulcahey | IJNET
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10/13/20
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What’s New in Publishing is proud to present The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by regular WNiP contributor and …
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Damian Radcliffe | What's New in Publishing
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10/6/20
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Since March of 2020, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has been collecting data on cutbacks to US newsrooms happening amid the novel coronavirus pandemic; today, they published the sum of their …
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Lauren Harris | CJR
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9/9/20
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Longtime health care journalist Gary Schwitzer uses the language of disaster warnings when discussing the challenges of covering COVID-19. In a recent interview with ABC network affiliate KSTP, …
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Kerry Dooley Young | Journalist's Resource
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8/24/20
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COVID-19 has made life difficult for freelance journalists around the world.As a result of the pandemic’s effects on the global economy, many news organizations have either suspended or limited …
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Kelechukwu Iruoma | IJNET
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8/11/20
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The news media has been hit hard by COVID-19. Advertising revenues have plummeted, bringing an already struggling industry to an ever more tenuous state. Outlets have frozen hiring, downsized and …
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David Maas | IJNET
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8/5/20
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In the months ahead, you will be covering bankruptcy cases involving names you could never have imagined you would find in this spot. It is time to take a few minutes to get tuned up for the stories …
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Ren LaForme | Poynter
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7/14/20
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Everyone is trying to predict what the fallout of the ongoing pandemic will look like for publishers. Difficult to do. Even major companies like PriceWaterhouseCoopers have delayed their annual Media …
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Dean Roper | WAN-IFRA
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7/9/20
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The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard — with its clear numbers, and its red bubbles on a dark world map — has become the trusted picture of the pandemic for many reporters and audiences …
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Rowan Philp | IJNET
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6/30/20
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It’s been rough out there in sales land during this health crisis. And yet, web traffic is spiking for media companies. So, what do we do to leverage that and take a bad situation and make it better for our advertisers? Let’s give ourselves some …
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Ryan Dohrn
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6/10/20
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The COVID-19 News Organizations Safety Protocols provides newsrooms and commissioning editors with practical guidance on how to cover the pandemic professionally and in a way that minimises risk. It addresses all aspects of assignment planning and …
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Andrew Heslop | WAN-IFRA
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6/9/20
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Freelancers play an essential role in the journalism ecosystem, making the media stronger and the stories we read more diverse. The effects of the covid-19 crisis have added to the numbers of freelance journalists in Europe, whilst making the …
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Adam Thomas and Marcela Kunova | journalism.co.uk
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6/8/20
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Black Americans, a group that has been hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus outbreak, have been paying closer attention to many elements of the outbreak–and discussing it more frequently with other people–than other U.S. adults, …
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Amy Mitchell and Mark Jurkowitz | Pew Research Center
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6/5/20
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The COVID-19 pandemic has sent public health officials scrambling, the global economy into shock, and governments everywhere into crisis. It has also reshaped the way journalists work, not least because many authorities in many countries have cited …
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Katherine Jacobsen | CPJ
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6/3/20
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Local news publications have been hard hit by financial pressure stemming from the pandemic, with many operating newsrooms gutted by layoffs and furloughs. Now, local journalists are juggling coverage of twin crises—the pandemic and the protests …
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Kerry Flynn | CNN
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6/2/20
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As local businesses closed around the world, laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits and central banks bought up government bonds to inject money into local economies, the COVID-19 health crisis has also turned into a deep economic …
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Linda A. Thompson | IJNET
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5/27/20
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Thursday produced a basketful of story ideas about housing for you to follow up on. In short: Sales dropped, sellers pulled homes off the market, the sales that did go through involved sky-high prices and mortgage rates hit a near-record low. Whew! …
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Al Tompkins | Poynter
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5/22/20
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In early January, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism published my report, “Media Mecca or News Desert?” Covering Local News in New York City,” which examined how citywide and hyperlocal news organizations allocate diminishing editorial …
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Sara Rafsky | CJR
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5/19/20
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