An immigration scholar guides us through the process of analyzing ICE arrest datasets published by the Data Deportation Project.

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Know Your Research Tip sheets and explainers to help journalists understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, investigate scientific misconduct and research errors, ...

Denise-Marie Ordway. She joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and ...

Clark Merrefield. Clark Merrefield is the senior editor for economics and legal systems at The Journalist's Resource. He joined JR in 2019 after working as a reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, ...

Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.

Journalists can download data directly from the Education Data Explorer’s Application Programming Interface or access data sets using Stata, a commercially-available statistical software package, or R ...

We updated this tip sheet on private school choice, originally published Feb. 7, 2024, on May 12, 2025 to provide more recent data on school choice legislation, the number of states and students ...

The two-part series, “Right to Remain Secret,” won the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting on April 3. Katey Rusch and Casey Smith were students in the University of California, ...

Covering immigration in 2025: 3 reporting tips and a list of data resources. We share expert insights from attorney Linda Dakin-Grimm, researcher Austin Kocher and investigative reporter Caitlin ...

A narrative began to take hold across the news industry in 2023: AI could free up journalists stuck performing mundane or rudimentary tasks, such as parsing information from police blotters, to focus ...

Health threats from climate change are reaching record-breaking levels, affecting people in every country, according to the eighth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, which ...