January 3, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.
In tandem with this new site, I’m launching a membership program. This program will enable COVID-19 communicators to connect more directly with each other, as well as to provide feedback that will shape what I cover. It’ll also help me cover my own costs, which have grown significantly as I moved platforms.
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January 3, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.
After five months of screenshotting Tableau charts, struggling to keep organized, and hitting Gmail’s email size limit again and again—I realized the platform wasn’t serving my needs. I wanted to give my readers clear archives and easy-to-navigate resources, and Substack just wasn’t providing. From now on, I’ll be publishing each issue as a series of posts on the site and sending out a newsletter with the highlights. This will help keep issues concise while still allowing me to do deep dives into important data issues.
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November 29, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.
Last week, I asked readers to share what information or context gaps they see in COVID-19 coverage from other publications. Readers shared a need for more local data and better understanding in the newsroom.
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November 15, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.
Last week, I asked readers to share their go-to sources for COVID-19 data about their community. I’m highlighting a couple of responses here.
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November 1, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.
On Nov. 1, 2020, I ran a Q&A thread on Substack in order to answer readers’ questions in the lead-up to the U.S. election. Here are a couple of the questions.
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September 27, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.
This is the newsletter’s tenth week. As I took a couple of days off to unplug, it seemed a fitting time to reflect on the project’s goals and on how I’d like to move forward.
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August 9, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.
This section was inspired by a question my friend Abby messaged me yesterday. She asked:
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