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Resources for Covering COVID-19

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

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Journalists’ sources: free speech under attack

Journalists sources under attack, writes lawyer Justin Quill.  

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Episode 5: Simon Holmes à Court – Have You Heard The News?

Simon Holmes à Court was just a schoolboy when his attention was captured by frontpage news reports of a multiple shooting at a US McDonalds. It was the first news story that stayed with Simon, and it raised some big questions for the Convenor of Climate 200 about how news is covered.

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Episode 4: Kathleen Lively – Have You Heard The News?

It's been Thanksgiving in the USA, and we talk to US Consul General Kathleen Lively about the first news story she remembers - the mystery surrounding the disappearance of two local girls from her hometown, Washington DC, as well as the profound impact of the Watergate revelations.

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Australia's secrecy laws include 875 offences. Reforms are welcome but don't go far enough for press

Peter Greste says it's laudable that the government recognises the threats to media freedom embedded in the law, but the answers in the review are more of the same: a set of band aids, rather than a comprehensive cure.

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Episode 3: Barry Judd – Have You Heard The News

Professor Barry Judd's first news story takes us back to the events of November 11, 1975, and the dismissal of the Whitlam government. Listen to how that news story changed the Melbourne University academic's view of the world.

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Working with traumatic imagery can affect your mental health

As the crisis in Ukraine continues and the situation rapidly escalates between Israel and Hamas, viewing traumatic images of violence, death, and destruction is a daily task for many journalists who work on the digital frontline.

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'Take chances on style, medium and most of all, on people'

An excerpt from Hari Raj’s essay in the upcoming book ‘Journalism Matters: 50 Years of Journalism at RMIT’.

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Fake News? Real News? Can you tell the difference? Take the test!

We know it’s out there. And we know there are those who consume fake news in the belief it's true. New research based on a Cambridge University test on spotting fake news shows that the age group in the US most susceptible to misinformation are those aged under 45. 

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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).

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