How to guide your student journalists and classroom pupils to cover civil unrest 'Your job is to help student journalists cover the news. Their safety is part of that concern ...' January 17, 2021 Barbara Allen
What a week it was. Will it get worse? We close another tumultuous week with relative calm after last week’s storm of an insurrection at the Capitol. Let's hope it stays calm. January 15, 2021 Tom Jones
CDC: We could soon see 30,000 COVID-19 deaths a week Plus, vaccine trials are looking for teens, restaurant and hotel workers can't catch a break, 61 members of Congress have tested positive, and more. January 15, 2021 Al Tompkins
‘We are all dizzy at this moment’ — How the media is keeping pace in these unprecedented times Think of all that has happened over the past year. A pandemic. A reckoning over race. A hotly contested election. And now, two impeachments. January 14, 2021 Tom Jones
COVID-19 could be with us ‘forever’ Plus, new Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine data is promising, COVID-19 made foster care even more difficult, and more. January 14, 2021 Al Tompkins
What student journalists can take away from last week’s Capitol attack Many rioters saw journalists as the enemy last week. But they kept doing their jobs, even as their own safety was threatened. January 13, 2021 Taylor Blatchford
It’s only Jan. 13 and this already feels like a long year Joe Biden’s inauguration is exactly one week away, but the country remains as divided and as on edge as ever. And the next week could make it worse. January 13, 2021 Tom Jones
Why the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine could be a game-changer … if it works Plus, HHS recommends vaccinating people over 65 and those with preexisting conditions, some Americans face discouraging signup processes, and more. January 13, 2021 Al Tompkins
The news is almost too depressing to watch These are horrific times for our country, but also a moment in which the media has shined. The reporting over the past week has been superb. January 12, 2021 Tom Jones
A new PPP launches this week. Here’s how it’s different from the first. Plus, two gorillas have the coronavirus, the flu season is so far milder this year, the complications of being a COVID-19 'long-hauler,' and more. January 12, 2021 Al Tompkins
