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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…

Mark Walker briefed attendees of NPF and RTDNA's "Crime Coverage Summit: 2023" in San Diego and spoke about "Five Records Requests Every Crime Reporter Should File" January 13, 2023. He also briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: A FOIA Field Guide and Web Scraping without Coding. Mark Walker is an investigative reporter focused on transportation at the Washington…

Seth Mnookin is a longtime journalist and science writer. His most recent book, "The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy," won the National Association of Science Writers “Science in Society” Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller "Feeding the Monster:…

James V. Grimaldi is a senior writer on the investigations desk of The Wall Street Journal. He is based in the Washington bureau, where he has worked since 2012. Previously, Grimaldi worked at The Washington Post for 12 years, primarily for the investigative unit. In 2006, he and two others won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for stories exposing…

The United States is dependent on China for a range of vital materials used in everything from livestock to fighter jets, yet it hasn’t made plans in case Beijing decides to cut off those supplies. That was the assessment of three experts who study the supply chains for critical industries that rely on Chinese supplies. “The United States might have…

In a tiny Colorado town at the end of 2018, a police lieutenant named Roy Kinney shot and killed Daniel Pierce after an adrenaline-fueled car chase. Pierce had paranoid schizophrenia, believing he was God. Kinney knew Pierce’s diagnosis  but felt forced into the shooting that cost a man his life and Kinney his job. It also prompted Rangely, population 2,300,…

With conspiracy theories spreading even faster than the COVID-19 virus, journalists face a daunting challenging in reporting on misinformation without feeding fake narratives. At a National Press Foundation online training, Public Good Projects CEO Joe Smyser released a new digital tool that aggregates social media information from across the United States and flags known purveyors of health misinformation. Smyser walked…

For reporters covering state capitals, it’s a fast-paced, news heavy beat. For many, it’s also a multimedia one – and few news organizations these days have the resources to send photographers for simple news shots. In a session with National Press Foundation fellows – most of whom cover local and state politics – Graham Cullen went over the basics of…