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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: What white allies can do
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onWe’re often asked by well-meaning white allies what they can do to support our work. Here’s just a few places to start.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Help Your BIPOC Interns Succeed
By Benét J. Wilson
Posted onSupporting young journalists of color at the beginning of their careers is crucial to retaining them throughout the industry. What you can do to help them survive — and thrive.
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Story Recipe: Checking The Success Of Your State’s Efforts To Restore Voting Rights To The Formerly Incarcerated
By Andrew Calderon
Posted onWe learned that no more than 1 in 4 formerly incarcerated voters had registered to vote in the 2020 election in four key states. We’ve documented our reporting process so you can use it in your state.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Burnout culture is everywhere
By P. Kim Bui
Posted onBut it starts at the top, and you need to have a hand in the solution.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Being more inclusive with your references
By Brian De Los Santos
Posted onWe all have to stop assuming everyone understands language, or references. It’s alienating.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: Dear imposter syndrome…
By Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onFor leaders, dealing with imposter syndrome means gently pushing our people into seeing their own success.
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Sincerely, Leaders of Color: To whom it may concern
By P. Kim Bui and Emma Carew Grovum
Posted onSincerely, Leaders of Color is written for everyone in the journalism industry who cares about creating a more supportive environment for journalists of color to do their best work.
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We unionized the digital team at The Seattle Times. You can do it too.
By Michelle Baruchman
Posted onThe digital journalists at The Seattle Times recently unionized, joining their newsroom peers in the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild. This is a diary of that process: their timeline, resources they relied on, and decision points you might face as you consider a organizing effort in your own newsroom.
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Meet the Baconator
By Frank Sharpe
Posted onHow ProPublica developed a caching technique that isn’t exactly a static site generator but retains many of the benefits of one, allowing them to retain the CMS workflows they love.
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COVID-19 story recipe: A dashboard with at-risk health indicators
By Dana Amihere, Alexandra Kanik, Lisa Pickoff-White, and Emily Zentner
Posted onWe teamed up to build a dashboard that shows two kinds of data: how widespread COVID–19 is in a community, alongside health indicators that show how some people are more at risk. We’ve open-sourced the project so you can use it too.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area
By Hannah Recht
Posted onAs new COVID-19 hot spots popped up across the country and states began to release data by race and ethnicity, the team at Kaiser Health News reported on why the illness was striking Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans so intensely. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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A comparison of four major COVID-19 data sources
By Irena Fischer-Hwang and Justin Mayo
Posted onA variety of datasets can help journalists track the spread of COVID-19. But which should you rely on? What’s the difference between them? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each? This guide will walk you through four major COVID-19 data sources: Johns Hopkins University, COVID Tracking Project, USAFacts, and The New York Times.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Using AHA data to analyze hospital bed capacity
By Dilcia Mercedes
Posted onAmerican Hospital Association data can help you estimate the total number of beds your region could need to treat patients in a COVID-19 outbreak, and how many beds are likely to be available based on expected usage patterns. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Identifying communities at risk from the pandemic and its economic fallout
By Jayme Fraser
Posted onUsing data from the CDC and the federal Health Resources & Services Administration, USA Today found counties that are both medically underserved and vulnerable to disasters—places where residents would be most at risk of losing access to health care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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How to make sense of all the COVID-19 datasets right now
By Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onThere are a lot of COVID-19 datasets available, and it can be hard to know how they differ and which ones are most trustworthy. Here’s an overview of current datasets that journalists can rely on for stories.
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COVID-19 story recipe: How to see what stocks members of Congress are dumping (or buying)
By Derek Willis
Posted onProPublica used the Senate’s financial disclosures to find that not long after Sen. Richard Burr offered a positive assessment in public of the country’s ability to handle the coronavirus, he sold hundreds of thousands of (and potentially up to $1.7 million) dollars in stocks, a highly unusual series of trades for him. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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Newsroom Execs and Managers: Ways to Uphold Your Diversity and Inclusivity Values During COVID-19
By Sisi Wei
Posted onOur values are even more important during a crisis. Here are a few practical strategies for thinking through tough decisions in an equitable and inclusive way.
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How we used Google sheets to build a fully-working newsgame prototype
By Robin Kwong and Cale Tilford
Posted onAs the Financial Times developed a newsgame for a series on companies that pursue profit with purpose, Google sheets gave them a way to quickly generate a playable, shareable prototype. Here’s how they did it and what they learned.
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COVID-19 story recipe: How to analyze your region’s hospital capacity
By Erin Petenko
Posted onVTDigger used Harvard Global Health Institute data to look into local hospitals’ capacity for handling an outbreak. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing nursing home data for infection-control problems
By Mike Stucka
Posted onA USA Today analysis found that three-quarters of nursing homes have been cited for infection-control problems in recent years. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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