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News Literacy Tips & Tools

Our Tip Of The Week comes from noted broadcast managerial expert.. Jill Geisler.  

This week’s tip let’s you figure out when someone created a web page from Tools For Reporters.

The American Press Institute has this list of best practices.  

Our tip of the week has nine tips… plus some more lessons and links at the end.

You will now find the updated Pronunciation guide with Audio  at the “pronunciation guide link” toward the top of the IBA Newsroom home page.

Here it is if you want to bookmark it.

Putting this Webinar up as our Tip Of The Week. Its from the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

Check out the site    rt.live     The creators of Instagram have put this together.  It tracks state by state transmission rates.   

“It lets us estimate how many secondary infections are likely to occur from a single infection in a specific area. Values over 1.0 mean we should expect more cases in that area,  More  

The International Journalists Network offered these tips:

COVID-19 prevention tips for journalists:

• Work from home if you can
• In the newsroom, clean your work station every day with at least 70% alcohol
• Wash your hands regularly for at least 20 seconds
• Conduct in-person interviews only if necessary
• Keep a distance of at least three to six feet from interviewees
• Use two microphones and sanitize them with alcohol and disposable towels
• Clean all equipment with alcohol
• Send teams of no more than two people 
• Opt for places with low foot traffic
• Wear a surgical mask when interviewing random people on the streets and discard it immediately after

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