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The Journalist’s Resource is a project of Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

We examine news topics through a research lens. Our mission is to inform the news by bridging the communications gap between academia and journalism. Our goal: to get more high-quality research into the media stream.

12/11/2025

NEW: Curious about ? Check out our five-part graphical series on sports betting since the Supreme Court in 2018 allowed states to legalize it.

https://journalistsresource.org/tag/the-story-of-sports-betting/

Part one in a five-part series on sports betting in the U.S. since the 2018 Supreme Court decision allowing states to legalize sports betting.

12/08/2025

It’s important for journalists to pay attention to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change because it connects global warming to concrete, measurable harms already unfolding in communities across the world and the U.S.

It’s important for journalists to pay attention to the report because it connects global warming to harms unfolding in communities.

12/05/2025

Journalists often overgeneralize study results by reporting that they apply to a much larger group of people than they actually do. In this tip sheet, scholars offer guidance and explain why it's a bad idea to rely on artificial intelligence tools to summarize research.

Read this to avoid overgeneralize research results, or reporting that they apply to a larger group of people than they actually do.

12/04/2025

Communicating risk clearly is essential to helping the public make informed decisions. Our explainer highlights four evidence-based practices journalists can use to bring accuracy, nuance, and contextual clarity to stories involving health and safety threats.

Include these four details, sometimes missing from news coverage, to help audiences understand risks to their health and safety.

12/03/2025

New studies look at how the 2025 immigration crackdown has affected students in southern California and a large Florida county. Plus, 3 tips for improving news coverage of the topic.

New studies find student performance fell across southern California and a large Florida county amid the surge in immigration enforcement.

12/02/2025

Federal datasets have been manipulated and removed since the beginning of the Trump administration and continue to be under threat. In this October piece, three data experts explain the critical consequences of this loss.

Three data experts explain the critical consequences of the manipulation and removal of federal data in recent months.

12/01/2025

Despite progress in treatment and prevention, HIV remains a major public health concern. It’s important for journalists to keep covering this epidemic locally, nationally and internationally.

Despite progress in treatment and prevention, HIV remains a major public health concern. It’s important that journalists keep covering this epidemic.

11/26/2025

From our 2022 archives: Politics and dinner might sound like a nightmare recipe. But research suggests talking political turkey just might be a good way to ease partisanship in the U.S.

Research suggests talking political turkey at Thanksgiving dinner just might be a good way to ease partisanship in the U.S.

11/25/2025

NEW: Two new studies look at how the 2025 immigration crackdown has affected students in southern California and a large Florida county. Plus, 3 tips for improving news coverage of the topic.

New studies find student performance fell across southern California and a large Florida county amid the surge in immigration enforcement.

11/24/2025

Despite the hype, optimism and legislation involving the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, researchers warn that there's much we don't know. This 2024 research roundup looks at some of the knowns and unknowns of psilocybin, M**A and other hallucinogens.

Despite the hype and optimism around psychedelics' therapeutic potential, researchers warn that there's much still unknown about them.

11/21/2025

As municipalities face potential cuts to federal funding for addressing homelessness, we dig into the research on what works to help people achieve permanent housing.

As municipalities across the U.S. federal funding cuts, we dig into the research on what works to help people achieve permanent housing.

11/20/2025

The ninth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report warns of accelerating health threats, from heat deaths to wildfire smoke, and highlights policy backsliding, including U.S. withdrawal from major climate agreements.

It’s a world in turmoil, according to the report, representing the work of 128 experts from 71 institutions, and the most comprehensive report to date. For the past several years, the Lancet medical journal has been publishing an in-depth annual report tracking the impact of climate change on global health.

To help journalists localize coverage of this year’s report, we’re sharing several story ideas.

https://journalistsresource.org/home/11-story-ideas-2025-lancet-countdown/https://journalistsresource.org/home/11-story-ideas-2025-lancet-countdown/

It’s important for journalists to pay attention to the report because it connects global warming to harms unfolding in communities.

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