We are compiling resources to help you cover the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly changing information that is emerging on this topic.
Updated list, including vaccine resources (January, 2021)
Covering Covid: A Quick Guide for Journalists
The Canadian Association of Journalists
International Journalists’ Network
International Journalists’ Network
- Everyone’s a health reporter now: Covering COVID-19 on other beats
- COVID-19 Reporting Resources
- 10 tips for journalists covering COVID-19
- Covering COVID: 6 recommendations for combating disinformation
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW)
First Draft News
Poynter Institute
- Daily coronavirus briefing for journalists. Subscribe here>
- How journalists can fight stress from covering the coronavirus
The Open Notebook
Journalist’s Resource
- How to cover an epidemic: 10 tips for a responsive reporting
- Covering biomedical research preprints amid the coronavirus
Scientific American
Ethical Journalism Network
Canadian Institutes for Health Research
- Canadian researchers who have received govt funding for COVID research
- 49 additional CIHR COVID-19 research projects – Details of the funded projects
COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group
- COVID-19 in Canada – This site maps current reported cases, recovered cases, deaths, and tested people by province.
World Health Organization
- Follow
#coronarovirus situation reports on Twitter @WHO - Information about the viral prediction by @MRC_Outbreak, the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling
National Travel Health Network and Centre (NATHNAC)
The Atlantic
- How Misinfodemics Spread Disease – Researchers are finding more and more that online misinformation fuels the spread of diseases such as tooth decay, Ebola, and measles (2018)
American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
- What Should Health Science Journalists Do in Epidemic Responses? A paper by Katherina Thomas and Alpha Daffae Senkpeni
Association of Health Care Journalists
