Articles by: Betsy Ladyzhets

When Will the Pandemic End? 26 Science Reporters and Communicators Respond

When Will the Pandemic End? 26 Science Reporters and Communicators Respond

When will the COVID-19 pandemic be truly over? The Open Notebook and the COVID-19 Data Dispatch asked 26 pandemic reporters and communicators this daunting question. Their responses provide some potential numeric thresholds—but also remind us that, even when all metrics are met, some people will remain vulnerable. These science writers additionally shared what they will carry forward from pandemic reporting into the next phases of their careers.

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by · July 22, 2021 · 1 comment
Consejos para periodistas: Cómo cubrir el tema de las vacunas contra COVID-19

Consejos para periodistas: Cómo cubrir el tema de las vacunas contra COVID-19

Desde diciembre, el ciclo de noticias de la pandemia ha girado en torno a una cosa: las vacunas. Los escritores de ciencia que cubren la salida y distribución de las vacunas deben equilibrar el reporteo preciso con la comprensión de las posibles dudas de sus lectores sobre las vacunas, reconocer las disparidades, explicar los datos, responsabilizar a los responsables de las fallas de distribución y más. The Open Notebook compiló recursos y consejos de periodistas con experiencia en el tema de las vacunas para ayudar a los escritores que ahora siguen este complicado tema.

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by · February 16, 2021 · Comments are Disabled
Tip Sheet: Covering COVID-19 Vaccines

Tip Sheet: Covering COVID-19 Vaccines

Since December, the pandemic news cycle has revolved around one thing: vaccines. Science writers covering the vaccine rollout must balance accurate reporting with understanding their readers’ potential vaccine hesitancy, acknowledging disparities, explaining data, holding those responsible for distribution failures accountable, and more. The Open Notebook compiled resources and advice from journalists with experience on the vaccine beat to help writers now following this complicated topic.

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by · February 16, 2021 · Comments are Disabled
Practice Data Reporting for Science Stories Using These Workbench Tutorials

Practice Data Reporting for Science Stories Using These Workbench Tutorials

Want to get started honing your data journalism skills? Betsy Ladyzhets and The Open Notebook have collaborated with Workbench, a free web application developed at the Columbia Journalism School, to develop two science-data tutorials. In each, users are given sample datasets from public scientific sources and led through the process of narrowing down their focus to a specific variable, then filtering the data to answer a question.

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by · September 8, 2020 · 1 comment
The "Warming Stripes" graphic represents, in a simple visual form, the change in temperature (in this case, globally) over the past 100+ years.

Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism

Data journalism is the practice of using numbers and trends to tell a story. It requires a variety of skills: research to find the correct dataset, analysis to determine what kind of story this dataset may tell, and presentation to share that story with readers. And these skills are within reach for many science writers, even without any programming background, because science writers already possess the most crucial tool of any data journalist—they ask good questions.

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by · July 28, 2020 · Comments are Disabled

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