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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.…

5 takeaways: ➀ “Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me your checkbook.” Data —whether from individual bank statements or government spreadsheets – is an accountability mechanism, said Derek Willis, a former ProPublica data journalist turned professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He recalled a pastor who used to say, “Show me your bank statement,…

5 takeaways: ➀ Read. The. Bill. Whenever legislation designates how taxpayer money will be spent, lawmakers put out press releases about who will be helped or what will be saved. “Budgets aren’t about numbers. They’re about priorities,” said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. But the only way to get at those true priorities is to read the…

The National Press Foundation is pleased to announce three new staff members have joined the team to “make good journalists better!” Rachel Jones joins us as our Director of Journalism Initiatives. Rachel has worked as a journalist and media consultant for more than 30 years in the U.S. and Africa. She has worked for the Detroit Free Press, National Public…

5 takeaways: ➀ Your audience isn’t everyone. Getting your story in front of everyone isn’t just impossible, it’s inefficient. You need to identify the social medical audience that is most likely to be interested in and share your story, said Alexander A. Pyles, a University of Maryland professor and audience editor for Capital News Service. Think about the demographics of…

5 takeaways: ➀ The Census Bureau has one job: to measure America's people and economy. “Our mission during the decennial census (which occurs during every year ending with a 0) is going to be to count every person living in the US once, only once and in the right place,” said Jewel Jordan, Public Affairs Specialist with the U.S Census…

Singer-Vine briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: Spreadsheets 101 and Beyond. Jeremy Singer-Vine is a journalist and computer programmer based in New York City, where he works as BuzzFeed's data editor. He also publishes Data Is Plural, a weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets. Before BuzzFeed News, Singer-Vine worked at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and computer…

5 takeaways: ➀ The best investigative stories often come from beat reporting. Investigative reporter Chris Hamby’s current project came in part from a beat reporter. One of his New York Times editors suggested a focus on the strategic national stockpile, and why the United States was ill-prepared for the pandemic. “At the same time, one of our health policy reporters…

Hamby briefed National Press Foundation fellows in December 2021: If The Going Gets Tough, Keep Going. Chris Hamby is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. His book, “Soul Full of Coal Dust,” received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award…

5 takeaways: ➀ Bioenergy is a vital part of the climate solution, scientists and industry say. Kim Cesafsky, director of sustainability at Enviva, the largest U.S. manufacturer of wood pellets, said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has included biomass as a key component in limiting warming to 1.5-degree Celsius. (See scenarios in the IPCC report.) The International Renewable Energy…

Cesafsky briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Forestry Science and Sustainability: The Enviva View. Kim Cesafsky is the director of sustainability at Enviva, a bioenergy and forest product company. Enviva is the world's largest producer of wood pellets, and its mills throughout the Southeastern U.S. produce renewable energy feedstocks that contribute to the displacement of fossil fuels and…

Grunwald briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Covering COP. Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and journalist who writes about government policy, especially climate policy, as well as American politics. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting and many other journalism honors. After growing up on Long Island…

Searchinger briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Are Wood Pellets Worse Than Coal?. Timothy D. Searchinger is a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University's Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment. He is also a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Although trained as a lawyer, his work today combines ecology, agronomy and economics to…

5 takeaways: ➀ The federal court system offers journalists a preview of issues that will soon face the country. Too often, reporters in Washington focus on Congress and the White House — and neglect the third branch of government, said Katelyn Polantz, a crime and justice reporter for CNN. The Supreme Court hears only a tiny fraction of the cases…

Geidner briefed journalists in October 2021: Covering the Supreme Court. Chris Geidner is an award-winning journalist and MSNBC columnist who has been writing about legal issues for the past two decades. His work includes widely recognized coverage of LGBTQ issues, the criminal legal system, and other complex legal and political questions. Geidner previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and…

Tillman briefed journalists in October 2021: Covering Federal Courts. Zoe Tillman is a senior reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC. She covers courts, justice, and the intersection of law and politics. Before joining BuzzFeed, Tillman covered federal courts for the National Law Journal and Legal Times, and worked for a community newspaper in Prince George's County,…

Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ China’s new food security policies could undermine global food security, Andrea Durkin argues. Global food prices are  33.9% higher than last year, even after a dip in June. COVID-19 is one factor, but the cost of food was increasing even before the pandemic, Sparkplug LLC Founder Andrea Durkin said in her new paper. Extreme weather…

Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ Good ’ol Google will often do the trick. But use the advanced search.  As every journalist knows, a general Google search will yield thousands of results, many of which might be redundant, nonsense, or both. The advanced search allows you to target your results to a specific institution. For example, filling in the “site or…

Video with Unedited Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ Explore how opioids changed the geography of America’s addiction problem. The sudden wave of overdoses not just in cities but in suburban and rural area confounded residents and caught some reporters by surprise. Beth Macy, a Virginia journalist and author of “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America,” said…

Chang briefed National Press Foundation fellows in May 2021: How to Track Trillions in COVID Relief. Mellissa Chang is a Research Analyst at Good Jobs First. Dreaming in python script, Mellissa uses her programming skills to collect, clean, and analyze federal funding data to feed the ever-growing Covid Stimulus Watch database. Through her research, Mellissa has uncovered various inequities and…

Adolfo Flores is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in McAllen, Texas.      

MedPage Today, Mountain State Spotlight and The California Divide collaboration hosted at CalMatters have each won a Poverty and Inequality Award from the National Press Foundation for reporting on what works to alleviate poverty in the United States. Their work highlighted how longstanding problems with foster care, child hunger and eviction have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic – and…

► Video with Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀Food insecurity is about nutritional insecurity as well as a lack of calories. Tom Vilsack, in his second stint as secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said the debate about food needs to focus much more on what people are being fed – not just how much. “When we think about nutrition,…

Hall was a "Poverty and Inequality" series speaker in March 2021: Sec. Tom Vilsack on American Hunger. As Vice President–External Affairs, Vince Hall leads the development and execution of strategies to organize and leverage key influencers and allies in support of Feeding America’s thought leadership and anti-hunger agenda. He is responsible for the advancement of an overarching strategy to catalyze…

► Video with Interactive Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ The pandemic has altered food supply chains, decimated the restaurant industry and heightened food insecurity. Laura Reiley, who covers the business of food for The Washington Post, has focused on the 50 million Americans who are food insecure. Many are experiencing food insecurity for the first time in their lives while suffering…

As Chief Executive Officer, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot oversees the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization and second-largest U.S. charity according to Forbes. Feeding America is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meals programs. Together, the Feeding America network provides more than 4 billion meals to more than 46 million people across the United States and supports programs…

Vilsack was a "Poverty and Inequality" series speaker in March 2021: Sec. Tom Vilsack on American Hunger. Thomas J. Vilsack was confirmed as the 32nd United States Secretary of Agriculture on Feb. 23, 2021 by the U.S. Senate. He was nominated by President Joe Biden to return to a role where he served for eight years under President Barack Obama. As…

The National Press Foundation has joined with other news organizations led by Fix The Court in asking that the federal judiciary change its policy to permit livestreaming and broadcasting of all hearings related to indictments stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Moreover, we believe that journalists should have unrestricted access to download and broadcast material without…

by Sonni Efron Every journalist needs a great data scientist as a source. But in 2021, journalists who want to do serious investigative reporting from around the nation need more than a source. They need a partner. The National Press Foundation and DataKind DC have joined forces to help them find one. Through a unique partnership, DataKind DC is recruiting…

By Sonni Efron Oct. 2, 2020 The National Press Foundation is expanding its partnership with DataKind DC to pair data scientist volunteers with NPF journalism fellows who are working to track federal COVID stimulus spending. The partnership has already helped NPF fellows who attended a July training on data and investigative journalism break important stories about which companies got Paycheck…