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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…

The 20 journalists who were selected as National Press Foundation’s “Covering Rare Diseases” fellows in 2021 have had their work published in the book “Living with a Rare Disease Worldwide.” Covering rare disease can be a challenge for journalists because the word “rare” implies the topic is not of particular interest to mass-market audiences. However, there are 7,000 rare diseases…

► Video with Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ Three requirements are needed to prove incitement, which isn’t protected under the First Amendment. Speech must be “directed to” and “likely to” cause imminent lawless action, and it must actually cause such action, said Seth Berlin, an attorney with Ballard Spahr. Directed to prompts these questions: “Were you trying to do it?”…

5 takeaways: ➀ Promote news literacy. It’s important to explain what we do as journalists. Teresa Frontado, executive editor at KUT, said she frequently runs into people that don't understand why journalists make the decisions we do. Be on the lookout for ways to check, contextualize and explain information. Frontado suggests Twitter threads as an effective way to contextualize and…

1. Social media allows candidates to dump the mainstream media. Many Texas Republicans feel they no longer need the media now that they can get their message out directly through email and social media, Matt Mackowiak, president of Potomac Strategy Group in Austin, Texas, told NPF’s Statehouse Reporting Fellows. “They feel like the media is on the other team and…

5 takeaways: ➀ Plan for the long game. Sudeep Reddy, a managing editor at Politico, advises all journalists to think deeply about the next chapter of their careers.  He often sees job applicants with three to five years’ experience who have not thought through where they want to go next. “You need to really be thinking, ‘What is it that…

Ariana Figueroa covers the nation's capital for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include congressional policy and politics, with a focus on agriculture, voting rights, immigration, education and labor. Before joining States Newsroom, Ariana covered public health and chemical policy on Capitol Hill for E&E News. As a Florida native, she's worked for the Miami Herald and her hometown paper, the…

Coronado briefed National Press Foundation fellows in March 2022: Latino Voters Are Varied and Growing. Acacia Coronado covers Texas news and politics for The Associated Press in partnership with Report for America based in Austin, TX. Before working with AP, she interned with publications including The Texas Observer,  The Texas Tribune and The Wall Street Journal. She graduated from the…

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5 takeaways: ➀ First things first: Clean up your data. Formatting a new dataset makes it easier to read and less likely to be misinterpreted. First, “select all,” hover between columns and double click to reformat your columns to fit the data within them. Then do the same for rows, said Devin Schechter, an Excel whiz for Accenture Federal Services.…