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Resources for Covering COVID-19

A growing list of articles and tools to help you cover the current Coronavirus pandemic

Journalists’ sources: free speech under attack

Journalists sources under attack, writes lawyer Justin Quill.

Mirrors and daggers: How journalists pay the price of 24/7 screen access

Australia’s access to high-level journalism skills and resources could lead it becoming an Asia Pacific hub for modelling and promoting solutions to technology-facilitated violence (TFV).

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?

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

COVID-19 and Journalism: Staying Psychologically Healthy

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

Press Council condemns Australian press freedom erosions

The Australian Press Council is calling on media to stand firm against the alarming erosion of access to information, privacy and protection of sources.

Rinehart loses costs case against Adele Ferguson

A company owned by Gina Rinehart will have to pay Adele Ferguson's legal costs after the failed attempt to force her to reveal her sources for a book about the family.

The Edit discusses journalism and trauma

MPC Event

An important discussion of the toll exposure to trauma can take on reporters and sources

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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Resources for Covering COVID-19

Journalists’ sources: free speech under attack

Mirrors and daggers: How journalists pay the price of 24/7 screen access

Understanding COVID-19 data

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

COVID-19 and Journalism: Staying Psychologically Healthy

Press Council condemns Australian press freedom erosions

Rinehart loses costs case against Adele Ferguson

The Edit discusses journalism and trauma

Chapter 3. A remarkable editor

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