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Tips for covering COVID-19 boosters — and helping your audience understand the scientific process

By Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist’s Resource This tip sheet was updated on Oct. 19 to include information about the World Health Organization’s views on boosters as a health equity issue. Uncertainty and change have been two common themes of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recent confusion and controversy surrounding vaccine boosters — including the […]

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From labyrinth, glass ceiling to roller coaster: new research shows female journalists at top level advocate gender equality in newsrooms

Ika Krismantari, The Conversation Research and studies around the world have described the career journey of female journalists in two metaphors: glass ceiling and labyrinth. These metaphors suggest women’s career prospects in journalism are bleak as they face various challenges not only from society but also the media organisations they work for. The glass ceiling […]

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Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of the press is under threat from strongmen and social media

Kathy Kiely, University of Missouri-Columbia Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event then heralded as a triumph of Western democratic liberalism and even “the end of history.” But democracy isn’t doing so well across the globe now. Nothing underscores how far we have […]

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