Lessons from the Pandemic

Distance kept us safe from Covid, but reporting requires contact and connection

Finding the students and families who can’t make it to school board meetings or protests needs to be a top priority for reporters

The pandemic forced sports departments to go beyond scores and records. That’s a change that every newsroom should carry into the future

The STAT senior reporter on the moment she knew the pandemic would become a big story, the politicization of the beat, and the challenges of reporting on evolving science

Unless news organizations continue to invest in obituaries, a fundamental way of keeping people together — and informed — will be lost

The mainstream press covered Indian Country at its worst. Its Covid-19 recovery is just as newsworthy

Local newsrooms should report with nuance, grace, and empathy — especially when covering political hot-button issues

At the Minneapolis Star Tribune, photographers and videographers didn’t flinch from showing what was happening, but they also portrayed subjects in their full humanity

The opening of newsrooms is filled with hope and fear. But we need human contact to feel human, and we need to feel human to report the stories of humanity

Trust needs to be continually earned. That’s a lesson newsrooms all over the world are learning, sometimes the hard way