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.

When we surveyed our audience in 2021 to ask why journalists don’t use academic research more often, 60% of journalists who responded cited academic journal paywalls as a barrier.. Some journalists ...

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 ...

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

El Niño and La Niña patterns last several months to a year, though sometimes longer. A strong El Niño is often followed the next year by a La Niña pattern. “ENSO is the most predictable climate driver ...

Rape kits often went untested in Cleveland before police there discovered the remains of 11 women in late October 2009 at the home of serial rapist and killer Anthony Sowell, who was sentenced to ...

Quick summary: This study finds people who live in chronically stressful environments often cope by engaging in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, drinking, drug use or overeating comfort foods, ...

Deepfake technology is changing fast — use these 5 resources to keep up. Deepfake videos are becoming easier to make every day. These five resources can help journalists keep up with this ...

In June 2023, Nevada legislators approved $380 million in public funding for a 30,000-seat ballpark for the Oakland A’s, who are expected to throw their first pitch in Las Vegas in 2028 after Major ...

Former Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local.”. The same applies to election administration in the U.S., which is markedly decentralized. On Election Day, county- and city-level ...

“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 ...

Wildfires have long-term health effects, both direct and indirect, several studies show. A recent systematic review of studies on long-term impacts of wildfires finds they are associated with mental ...