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The latest news from the International Center for Journalists.

April
8
2020

Mental Health Tips and Resources for Journalists

Journalists are often on the frontlines of some of the world’s most challenging events, from crime scenes and road accidents to natural disasters and wars. Now, journalists around the world are working overtime to cover the COVID-19 pandemic. 

April
8
2020

Don’t Just Debunk Misinformation: 4 Tips for Navigating the COVID-19 Infodemic

As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus began to spread more rapidly around the world in February, the World Health Organization (WHO) deployed the term ‘infodemic’ to describe the information and misinformation circulating alongside it. Many rumors, myths and falsehoods have made the rounds — and still are — covering anything from ‘cures,’ to mandatory quarantines, to conspiracy theories about the virus’ origin. 

April
8
2020

Covering COVID-19: Concepts, Sources, Treatments and More With Valeria Román

Business, politics, travel, lifestyle: no matter the beat, most journalists are now reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we’ve compiled tips from Argentinian science journalist Valeria Román to help journalists report effectively during this crisis. She shared her advice with us during a Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum webinar last week.

April
8
2020

Key Quotes: Doctors and Journalists in Asia Collaborate to Fact Check COVID-19 Myths

Journalists should watch out for misinformation about vaccines and fake treatments for COVID-19 because misleading the public can lead to deaths, say two fact-checking experts who collaborate to debunk health myths in Asia.

April
7
2020

Key Quotes: How All Journalists Can Cover the Health Beat During the COVID-19 Crisis With Thomas Abraham

Abraham discussed the reality today for reporters who have been thrown into covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and compared what is happening now with his experience covering the SARS virus in 2003. For Abraham, the key question journalists should be answering right now is what is the human story behind health and science reporting?

April
3
2020

Key Quotes: Frontline Lessons from International News Outlets Reporting the Pandemic With Maria Ressa, Ritu Kapur and Branko Brkic

Facing a possible “extinction event” for independent media worldwide, journalists must work together globally to combat a triple threat of disinformation, government restrictions and economic calamity worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, three top editors said during an ICFJ webinar Friday.

April
2
2020

Cómo abordar los ensayos clínicos en curso para la cura del COVID-19

¿Por qué es importante entender y analizar críticamente los ensayos clínicos en proceso para medicamentos y vacunas contra el COVID-19? La  Dra. Gabriela Minaya, médica especializada en enfermedades infecciosas y tropicales, respondió esta pregunta en un seminario online realizado en el marco del Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum de ICFJ. 

April
2
2020

ICFJ Partner OCCRP Wins Prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has won the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, given to a select group of entrepreneurs whose innovations have had a significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems. OCCRP is a long-time partner of ICFJ.  

April
1
2020

Media Sustainability During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As measures to contain COVID-19 spread around the world and millions of people are quarantined in their homes, reliable, fact-checked news is more important than ever. News audiences are growing in record numbers, but for many media organizations, income is falling.

March
31
2020

Key Quotes: The Origin of COVID-19 and Self-Protection Measures With Virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen

A noted virologist who has investigated threats from Ebola to SARS cautioned journalists to be wary of sources who pretend to be experts on COVID-19 since the disease was unknown to the world just a few months ago.