President-elect Joe Biden has picked a historic communications staff All of the senior staffers in the communications department will be women — believed to be a first among a White House administration. November 30, 2020 Tom Jones
The CDC will meet this week to discuss who will be first to be vaccinated Plus, the countries that'll get vaccines first, the Oxford-AstraZeneca controversy explained, New York schools are ditching hybrid learning, and more. November 30, 2020 Al Tompkins
Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know ‘The Second Coming,’ by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, offers many lessons in a year in which the world seems to be falling apart. November 25, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
Will journalists be considered front-line workers for COVID-19 vaccines? Plus, what 635 epidemiologists plan to do for Thanksgiving, 162 state legislators have had COVID-19, and more. November 25, 2020 Al Tompkins
How local journalists are covering a Thanksgiving drastically impacted by COVID-19 Thanksgiving doesn’t look the same across America this year. Neither does the local news coverage. November 24, 2020 Amaris Castillo
The great divide: whether to require masks in schools Plus, the flu season isn't too bad (so far), scrubbing is next to futile, there's a shortage of people to run ventilators, and more. November 24, 2020 Al Tompkins
The possible first day of COVID-19 vaccinations is Dec. 12 Plus, who will get vaccines first, nursing homes are in peril, non-COVID nursing home deaths are rising, and more. November 23, 2020 Al Tompkins
Here come the COVID-19 car repos Plus, surgical glove supplies are tight, an outbreak on a Navy destroyer, the CDC says 'stay home' for Thanksgiving, and more. November 20, 2020 Al Tompkins
12 writing tools to make COVID-19 coverage comprehensible. One stands above the rest. A dozen tips to give people what they need to make safe decisions and about their health and confidence in their knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic November 20, 2020 Roy Peter Clark
100 years after the Ocoee Massacre, a local TV station is telling the story ‘If we’re not bringing these stories forward, we have to ask ourselves as news organizations, why not?’ November 19, 2020 Kristen Hare
