With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.

Journalists can download data directly from the Education Data Explorer’s Application Programming Interface or access data sets using Stata, a commercially-available statistical software package, or R ...

The number of people held in immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement essentially flatlined this month. The total detained population—counted as beds occupied at midnight on a ...

When health data disappears: 8 tips for finding what’s hidden from public view. As public health data becomes harder to access, journalists and experts at the Association of Health Care Journalists' ...

Journalists can use these 10 tools to examine education data in areas such as student achievement, school segregation and ...

“The field of media studies has consistently demonstrated that news coverage meaningfully shapes public perceptions,” the authors write. For their experiment, the authors recruited a nationally ...

She joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer.Her ...

School board elections have grown increasingly politicized in recent years as conservative politicians and advocacy organizations push to restrict how public schools address issues related to race, ...

Major public health and medical associations in the U.S., including the American College of Physicians, American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association have recognized voting ...

If an official or politician is spreading misinformation, be quick to point it out. Instead of quoting them directly and amplifying it, provide the information that is correct, and report what the ...