OUR NEXT WEBINARS


Next week we are hosting two more webinars to help you understand some of the profound challenges facing journalism. This Wednesday, Meera Selva, the Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme will discuss the emotional impact on journalists borne by crises such as COVID-19. She will be speaking alongside Dr Anthony Feinstein, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto.

On Thursday, Dr Joy Jenkins will discuss how local news outlets continue to manage the shift to digital production and consumption of news.

We hope you enjoyed our most recent seminars. On Wednesday Spanish fact-checker Clara Jiménez Cruz spoke to us on how Maldita.es has monitored misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday Professor Denise Lievesley got us all up to speed on effectively using statistics in journalism. Catch up on those webinars below.

ON WEDNESDAY 27 MAY

Journalists under pressure - the toll of covering crises

The topic. Reporters covering traumatic events are known to experience adverse mental health including depression and PTSD. A 2017 report by the Reuters Institute looked at the 'moral injury' of covering the refugee crisis. Reporting on the ccoronavirus pandemic is like receiving a one-two punch, according to one expert, as journalists are both covering the story while also being subject to its impact.

🎙️The speakers. Meera Selva is the Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme. During the webinar, Meera will speak with Anthony FeinsteinProfessor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and co-author of our study into the impact of the refugee crisis on journalists. He has received UNESCO funding for researching the impact of war reporting and co-produced the award-winning documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat.

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ON THURSDAY 28 MAY

The continuing digital transition of local news

The topic. A 2018 report from the Reuters Institute, The Digital Transition of Local News, found local newsrooms using different approaches, often determined by their companies, to grapple with the growth of digital news.

The event. This webinar will present findings from follow-up interviews exploring how leaders at local and regional news organisations in four countries continue to navigate the digital landscape. The research considers strategies focused on building digital subscriptions and paid content, streamlining online production, developing new locally focused products, and engaging and building trust with audiences.

🎙️The speaker. Joy Jenkins is Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee's School of Journalism and Electronic Media and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute. Her work focuses on changing organisational identities and practices in newsrooms in an increasingly complex digital environment.

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Fact checking a global story

Clara Jiménez Cruz, co-founder of Maldita.es, spoke about how her Spanish fact-checking news organisation tackles disinformation through its army of subscribers and specialists.

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A guide to statistics for journalists

Denise Lievesley CBE, Principal of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford and former President of the Royal Statistical Society, highlighted the comparisons between journalists and statisticians and their fundamental role in a healthy society. She outlined what makes for good statistics and how statistics are used and misused by governments.

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PANDEMIC AND JOURNALISM

Suggested reading on COVID–19

Here are a few links that can help you navigate the current pandemic as a journalist and understand the impact it's having on our industry and on misinformation worldwide.

🔬Navigating the 'infodemic': how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus. | Rasmus K. Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen and Philip N. Howard

Advice from public health experts Peter Drobac and Trudie Lang on how journalists can help stop the spread of the outbreak. | By Eduardo Suárez

💰What the pandemic may mean for the business of news. | By Rasmus Nielsen


🔬Advice on how to cover COVID-19 from the founder of a leading African health news organisation. | By Eduardo Suárez

🤥 What our past research says about misinformation in the context of COVID–19. | By J. Scott Brennen and Rasmus Nielsen   

🧶A thread with many examples of great journalism on the pandemic. | From our Twitter account

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