{"id":1350,"date":"2020-03-08T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/?page_id=1350"},"modified":"2021-07-24T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T13:57:45","slug":"how-to-report-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/how-to-report-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to report a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Many people are unfamiliar with public health and have decided that this is an area of information they can understand and make life-or-death choices about.\u00a0<br \/>For reporters it is a familiar &#8220;politics over science&#8221; dilemma.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/><br \/><strong>So here are some good resources from the last pandemics:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>** AMA &#8212; Do journalists need a central information site in order to maintain their credibility?\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/what-should-health-science-journalists-do-epidemic-responses\/2020-01\">https:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/article\/what-should-health-science-journalists-do-epidemic-responses\/2020-01<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>** Couple of Nieman sites, slightly dated but very good at describing what has gone wrong in the past and how panic can spread\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nieman.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/pod-assets\/microsites\/NiemanGuideToCoveringPandemicFlu.aspx.html\">https:\/\/nieman.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/pod-assets\/microsites\/NiemanGuideToCoveringPandemicFlu.aspx.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-nieman-reports\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/niemanreports.org\/articles\/preparing-to-cover-a-pandemic-a-new-guide-for-journalists\/<\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>* Good short takes at Journalists resource\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journalistsresource.org\/tip-sheets\/covering-epidemics-pandemics-infectious-disease\/\">https:\/\/journalistsresource.org\/tip-sheets\/covering-epidemics-pandemics-infectious-disease\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>* World federation of science journalists, ebola\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wfsj.org\/ebola\/intro\/\">http:\/\/wfsj.org\/ebola\/intro\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>* 2009 Sci Dev Net\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/global\/disease\/practical-guide\/how-to-report-a-disease-outbreak-or-pandemic-1.html\">https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/global\/disease\/practical-guide\/how-to-report-a-disease-outbreak-or-pandemic-1.html<\/a><br \/>*2018 study on how the media flubs coverage\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-media-falls-short-in-reporting-epidemics-101216\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-media-falls-short-in-reporting-epidemics-101216<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are unfamiliar with public health and have decided that this is an area of information they can understand and make life-or-death choices about.\u00a0For reporters it is a familiar &#8220;politics over science&#8221; dilemma.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So here are some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/how-to-report-a-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/journalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}