An immigration scholar guides us through the process of analyzing ICE arrest datasets published by the Data Deportation Project.

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Know Your Research Tip sheets and explainers to help journalists understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, investigate scientific misconduct and research errors, ...

Clark Merrefield. Clark Merrefield is the senior editor for economics and legal systems at The Journalist's Resource. He joined JR in 2019 after working as a reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, ...

Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.

We updated this tip sheet on private school choice, originally published Feb. 7, 2024, on May 12, 2025 to provide more recent data on school choice legislation, the number of states and students ...

Covering immigration in 2025: 3 reporting tips and a list of data resources. We share expert insights from attorney Linda Dakin-Grimm, researcher Austin Kocher and investigative reporter Caitlin ...

A narrative began to take hold across the news industry in 2023: AI could free up journalists stuck performing mundane or rudimentary tasks, such as parsing information from police blotters, to focus ...

Health threats from climate change are reaching record-breaking levels, affecting people in every country, according to the eighth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, which ...

All year, journalists all over the United States have been hard at work covering the 2024 election. The Journalist’s Resource team has been hard at work, too, creating resources to help you cover the ...

This article originally appeared in Harvard Public Health magazine. It’s hard to escape the message these days that every sip of wine, every swig of beer is bad for your health. The truth, however, is ...