Understanding COVID-19 data

Video: Coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has centred around statistics, but how do journalists make sense of the enormous amounts of data released by health authorities?

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COVID-19: Tips for Editors and Chiefs-of-Staff

Video: Dr Cait McMahon from the Dart Centre discusses ways to maintain your mental health while covering COVID-19

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The Board

Meet the Melbourne Press Club board.

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Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

On 14 December, 1976, there was a lunch in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria that was to give new prestige to the Melbourne Press Club. The memory of Graham Perkin was very fresh in all our minds. Perkin, editor-in-­chief of The Age, died suddenly of a heart attack on 16 October, 1975. He was 45.

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