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With cases surging and aid running out, workers face 'impossible choices'

Workers are being forced to choose between unemployment or returning to work and risking their family's health.
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How to start reporting on implicit bias in your local health system

How can journalists report on how implicit bias is affecting the quality of health care in their area? We asked some experts for ideas.
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How I used engagement journalism to report on local air pollution

Step one: listen to community questions before asking your own.

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Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Internews is looking for a health and science journalism mentor

Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Internews is looking for a health and science journalism mentor.
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Coronavirus Files: How COVID Might Impact the November Election

Each Monday, The Coronavirus Files provides tips and resources and highlight exemplary work to help you with your reporting.
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Racism’s impact on health and health care goes beyond bad apples

Why we need to distinguish between bad behavior and structural problems in how we’re organized as a society.
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What it means to defund the police — and why journalists should follow the money

Public officials come under fire for budgets that prioritize law enforcement and shortchange community health and safety.
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COVID-19 is making children more sedentary — and that carries lifelong health risks

Disparities in youth fitness are a longstanding problem. The pandemic threatens to widen the gap.
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Coronavirus Files: Soaring Cases & How to Choose a Mask

Each Monday, The Coronavirus Files provides tips and resources and highlight exemplary work to help you with your reporting.
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Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Dow Jones is looking for a science editor

Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Dow Jones is looking for a science editor in New York City
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Experts offer roadmap for reporters tackling America's nursing home crisis during COVID-19

The virus has exposed what advocates for better treatment and families of loved ones in nursing facilities have known for years.

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  1. Experts offer roadmap for reporters tackling America's nursing home crisis during COVID-19
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  5. COVID-19 is making children more sedentary — and that carries lifelong health risks
  6. Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Dow Jones is looking for a science editor

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