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A record number of anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legistlatures this year. From bills trying to ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth to bills restricting curriculum in public schools, LGBTQ+ rights are being tested like never before. On the front lines of this debate are Wendy Strout, Human Rights Campaign's Wisconsin Director; Melinda Brennan, the ACLU's…

Public confidence in journalism requires a new commitment to transparency at a time when the credibility of government and political reporting stands trial every day, Kathleen Culver, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said in a wide-ranging discussion of journalism ethics. Speaking to the National Press Foundation’s Statehouse Reporting fellows gathered in Madison, Wisconsin,…

After rivers of federal aid helped keep state and municipal governments afloat during the deadly pandemic, there are looming threats to states’ long-term fiscal stability, analysts told the National Press Foundation’s Statehouse Reporting fellows in Madison, Wisconsin. Melissa Maynard, senior officer at Pew Charitable Trusts Fiscal 50 project, and Liz Farmer, co-host of the “Public Money Pod,” highlighted a transition…

State elections officials said preparations for the 2024 presidential elections are being stalled by continuing attempts to challenge the 2020 vote based on unfounded fraud claims. Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in Georgia, told the National Press Foundation’s Statehouse Reporting fellows in Madison, Wisconsin, that that baseless claims and “malicious” information requests…

When then-accused Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was brought to trial 26 years ago, victims of the deadliest attack on American soil were granted unprecedented access: a closed-circuit feed of the federal court proceedings. The same concession was granted to the 9/11 families when Zacarias Moussaoui, the then-accused al-Qaeda conspirator, was tried in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Va. A…

With the release of Chat GPT-4 in March, artificial intelligence has vaulted into the public eye. As it grows exponentially, how will it streamline – and potentially threaten – legal jobs? AI experts and journalists explained how AI can help lawyers work more efficiently, along with what they should watch out for. [Transcript | Video] 5 takeaways: ➀ AI won’t…

Peter Baker has covered five presidents, from Clinton to Biden. Yet while the business model and technology for delivering the work has changed dramatically, the central challenge remains the same: a commitment to fairness in pursuit of the truth.    As chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, Baker said journalism’s fundamental values should be non-negotiable to outlast the…

When Rachel Dissell began to pivot toward juvenile justice reporting, her earlier experience investigating the impact of lead poisoning for the Cleveland Plain Dealer fueled her approach. Cleveland's children are lead poisoned at four times the rate of kids across the country, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Health. After documenting all the promises to fix lead-poisoned…

The pandemic has had especially negative effects on children and teens. From trauma and isolation to school closures and a change in learning, research reveals a spike in sadness for teen girls, a decline in student performance and enrollment. But perhaps most troubling, hundreds of thousands of students never returned to school once the lockdowns ended. Thomas Dee, the Barnett…

Healthy, quality foods including fresh fruits and produce, are crucial for child development and family stability. But in many cities and towns, the availability of fresh food depends on things like your ZIP code, your income, or your access to transportation. And municipal policies that benefit wealthy developers more than local grocery store owners make it harder for families to…

Growing up as an adopted Black child in an Iowa Norwegian American community, Rebecca Jones Gaston experienced many of the challenges for children in foster care: isolation, otherness and wondering about family of origin. Her life and career choices paved the path to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was confirmed as Commissioner of the Administration…

In January 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced new, comprehensive guidelines about the treatment of childhood obesity, urging an earlier focus and more aggressive treatment that includes drugs and even surgery in some cases. But as some American parents may worry about too much-processed food or too little movement beyond the PlayStation screen, other families struggle with lack of…

In the last few decades, labor educators like Jennifer Sherer have analyzed child labor issues in other countries. Now, in her work at the Economic Policy Institute, she has been forced to refocus on domestic issues. Proposed legislation rolling back child labor laws “is an emerging and really accelerating trend,” Sherer told Future of the American Child fellows in Cleveland.…

At least 16 state currently have passed laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care. Prior to this year, only three states had enacted laws doing so. At least 16 states currently have passed laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care. Prior to this year, only three states had enacted laws doing so. While judges have blocked bans and some of these laws…

Sixto Cancel entered foster care as an 11-month-old when his mother, who struggled with drug abuse and mental illness, could no longer care for him. They were reunited 5 years later, but when the threat of separation loomed again, Cancel remembers being hidden in a neighbor’s kitchen cabinet as police cars lined up outside. [Video | Transcript]  Officers finally gave…

The National Press Foundation board of directors selected NPR’s Terence Samuel as vice chair, Politico’s Sudeep Reddy for the executive committee and Nancy Youssef of The Wall Street Journal as a new member of the board. "As journalists, our role in the furtherance and preservation of democracy is under constant threat. The way I think we meet that challenge is…

When Steve Ellis started at Taxpayers for Common Sense in 1999, the national debt was $5.6 trillion. Now, it’s $31.4 trillion. Ellis explained to Paul Miller reporting fellows the “uncharted territory” of debt ceiling talks in this Congress. [Transcript | Video] 3 TAKEAWAYS: ➀ Default would have irreversible consequences. “I think it's definitely a chance that we will default and not…

Mark Walker, an investigative reporter for The New York Times who also served as its FOIA coordinator, spoke to NPF and RTDNA Crime Coverage Summit 2023 journalists about how to get the information that law enforcement doesn’t make readily available. For records from the Department of Justice or any federal agency, you’ll file a FOIA. For records from your local…

After the Supreme Court Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade, news outlets published a slew of stories about period trackers and data privacy. Six months later, Jordan Wrigley of Future of Privacy Forum, Kaiser Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan and Dr. Jamila Perritt, president of Physicians for Reproductive Health, talked to “Your Body, Their Data?” fellows about future coverage. [Transcript…

Big Tech companies are famously tight-lipped when it comes to their algorithms, which can influence millions of people around the globe. That's where journalists come in. Data journalist Surya Mattu aimed for accountability with his Facebook investigation "Citizen Browser" for The Markup. "There's no easy way to independently audit what's happening on the platform, and this was our attempt at…

Private companies’ data collection builds on “a history of surveilling and criminalizing black and brown people and disabled people's bodies and movements, and data-driven discrimination in any one of these areas will feed into systemic racism and ableism in other areas,” Ridhi Shetty, a policy council for the Center for Democracy and Technology, told NPF data privacy fellows. [Transcript |…

Jennifer Kho didn’t set out to become the first woman and first Asian American Executive Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. But in each of her career choices, she prioritized growth and inclusion, vowing to learn as much as she could about the news industry. The lesson for Widening the Pipeline fellows is that innovation, persistence, and betting on yourself can…

When he received the official diagnosis of his son Henry’s rare disease, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel was traveling in a convoy in South Korea. Engel joined a session from a convoy in southern Ukraine to share his family’s agonizing struggle with Rett Syndrome, which ended in Henry’s death at age 6. Engel spoke at an NPF program…

Adults are not a monolith, Karon Phillips, a public health gerontologist and policy development manager at Trust for America’s Health said. It’s critical to be mindful of other factors; the intersectionality of ageism. Phillips and Brian Smedley, a senior Fellow in the Office of Race and Equity Research at Urban Institute, share with the Living Longer Fellows what they know.…

4 TAKEAWAYS: ➀ Older folks often fear speaking up. As Siavash Radpour, associate director of ReLab at The New School, explains, the flaws behind the American retirement system affect more than just the possibilities of retirement or the quality it may eventually hold – it affects the day-to-day lives of workers who live within an insecure job market and consistently…

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently a Soros Justice Fellow, an AI Accountability Fellow for the Pulitzer Center and a data-journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She has worked with Documented, ProPublica, the Guardian, the New York Times and…

5 takeaways: ➀ The pandemic inflamed age discrimination and a caregiving crisis in America, and both issues have been underreported in the media. "Age discrimination … is so pervasive that you don’t even notice it,” Debra Whitman, executive vice president and chief public policy officer of AARP. Just in the few hours before she met with NPF fellows during a…

China’s new assertiveness is leading Western nations to pause on new investments in China and reengage with Southeast Asia – but how can they compete with Chinese influence in its own neighborhood?  Steven Okun of the international strategic advisory firm McLarty Associates briefed NPF’s International Trade Fellows on the new landscape for Asian trade and investment. [Transcript | Video] 4…

Journalists can get great stories by investigating whether businesses are living up to their legal commitments and PR pledges to protect workers’ rights, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) business and human rights specialist Harpreet Kaur told NPF’s International Trade Fellows in Singapore. [Transcript | Video] 5 takeaways: ➀ Businesses care about their human rights record for three reasons. First, those…

Journalists—like rescue workers, military service members and health workers—frequently encounter trauma, Amantha Perera, the project lead at the Dart Centre Asia Pacific, told NPF’s International Trade Fellows in Singapore. [Transcript | Video] “The difference between those professions and journalism is that … the idea of trauma impact and your mental health is recognized quite strongly [in the others], and also…

With the world potentially nearing a point of no return on climate change, global organizations are promoting sustainable solutions. In 2019, Singapore pledged to produce 30% of its food inside the city-state by 2030 – an ambitious goal. V-Plus Agritech, a vertical farming start-up, aims to help reach that target and advance the UN’s sustainable development goals for food security,…

A number of journalists in the National Press Foundation’s 2022 International Trade Fellowship cohort work in countries ranked among the most dangerous by the World Press Freedom index. Matthew Campbell, a reporter and editor for Bloomberg Business Week, and Zat Astha, head of content for Rice Media, spoke about how they do good journalism from Singapore. [Transcript | Video] 4…

Four experts and journalists briefed NPF International Trade fellows on how environmental issues are playing out in Asian trade, how biodiversity and green energy conflict, and how to distinguish good carbon credits from greenwashing. [Video | Transcript] 4 takeaways: ➀ Know the difference between carbon markets: compliance and voluntary. The science suggests carbon reduction targets cannot be achieved without removing carbon…

Digital economy agreements have been happening for more than two decades, yet there’s still no single accepted definition of digital trade, Nydia Ngiow told NPF’s International Trade Fellowship journalists in Singapore. Ngiow, a managing director at BowerGroupAsia, is a former international trade negotiator with the Singapore government who worked on the Trans-Pacific Partnership as well as the EU-Singapore free trade…

Pandemic disruption, the U.S-China trade war, rising economic nationalism and China’s recent zero-COVID policy have prompted many corporations to prioritize resilience over efficiency in their supply chains. Some are looking at moving some operations to Southeast Asia — but most haven’t done so yet, two supply chain experts told NPF’s international trade fellows. While “friend-shoring” has appeal, labor, environmental and…

Singapore’s most senior former diplomat gives NPF’s international trade fellows an around-the-world tour of the new geopolitics. Bilahari Kausikan, known as “Singapore’s undiplomatic diplomat,” talks about Putin, Xi, Erdoğan, inflation, recession and why no country will now meet its carbon reduction goals. [Transcript | Video] 5 takeaways: ➀ The Ukraine war poses major challenges for Chinese foreign policy. It has…

5 takeaways: ➀ China may no longer be on track to overtake the U.S. in GDP. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said it is possible for China to double its total economic size, or per capita income, by 2035. Although it has long been assumed that China would inevitably surpass the United States in GDP, its ability to do so…

In a conversation with NPF’s international trade fellows in Singapore, former U.S. trade negotiator and Hinrich Foundation scholar Stephen Olson challenged journalists to take a broader historical view of the history of globalization. Understanding the assumptions that drove Bretton Woods and the hyper-globalization that followed will elevate your coverage of the global crackup, Olson said. [Transcript | Video] 5 takeaways:…

Deborah Elms, the encyclopedic trade expert behind the Asian Trade Centre and the Talking Trade blog, gave NPF’s International Trade Fellows a briefing on what journalists need to know to track the bewildering number of acronyms of Asian bilateral and multilateral trade deals and frameworks in their multiple stages and incarnations. Herewith, a crib sheet: [Video | Transcript] WTO: The…