The Science Writers 2020 session I organized was called “Diving into the data: How data reporting can shape science stories.” Its goal was to introduce science writers to the world of data and to show them that this world is not a far-off inaccessible realm, but is rather a set of tools that they can add to their existing reporting skills.
This newsletter is about to step up its game in a big way. I am absolutely honored and thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program.
OG readers may remember that, in my first issue, I praised a ProPublica article by Caroline Chen and Ash Ngu which explains how to navigate and interpret COVID-19 data. I was inspired by that article to write a similar piece for Stacker: “How to understand COVID-19 case counts, positivity rates, and other numbers.”
I recently had the honor of speaking to Bara Vaida, from the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), about my work at Stacker, the COVID Tracking Project, and this newsletter.