Building journalist skills for future health crises

Building journalist skills for future health crises
The World Editors Forum Asia Chapter, the regional network in Asia for editors within the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), is offering a virtual training programme covering six modules to improve knowledge and practices of generalist journalists around science and health reporting.
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged news organisations like never before, requiring journalists to respond with immediate innovation and pick up new science and health reporting skills and knowledge on the fly. Health misinformation is rife about everything from mask-wearing to the symptoms of COVID-19 to the origins of the virus. News organisations have had to design new methods to get through to audiences that are bombarded with information, rumour and misinformation.
Journalists have had to manage all these with scarce resources, while working from home and keeping themselves safe from the virus. It has been tough.
Generalist journalists who have found themselves having to cover science and health issues during COVID-19, and who are interested in improving their skills and understanding.
We are inviting editors to nominate candidates in their newsrooms who could benefit from these new skills and knowledge.
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