Friday, January 6, 2017 Celebrate Great JournalismJoin us on February 16 to meet this year's award winners, including Martha Raddatz, Steve Buttry, The Washington Post, Clark Hoyt, Houston Chronicle, Peter Kovacs, Jay Newton-Small and Darrin Bell. Details on their award-winning work and dinner sponsorship can be found here. Questions? Contact Jenny Ash-Maher jenny@nationalpress.org | 202.663.7285 How to Report on Hate Crimes In the month after the 2016 elections, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted a dramatic surge in hate incidents across the country. The rapid escalation of hate acts against people of color, religious minorities and the LGBTQ community poses many challenges for journalists. Experts: Steve Buttry wins NPF Chairman's CitationSteve Buttry has been named the recipient of the Chairman’s Citation. Buttry is Director of Student Media at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has been practicing and teaching journalism for more than 40 years. Kevin M. Goldberg, chairman of the NPF Board of Directors, said of Buttry’s selection: “Steve Buttry embodies NPF’s mission of ‘making good journalists better.’ Throughout his long and distinguished career, he has continually asked journalists to rethink how they do their jobs. In particular, his challenge to ‘listen more, talk less’ has taken on new importance as we emerge from the 2016 elections and re-evaluate what journalism is and what it must become.” NPF Friends and Fellows A New Day for Mental Health | Jennifer Bleyer, Psychology Today | Mental Health 2016 Giving newborns medicine is a dangerous guessing game. Can we make it safer? | Megan Scudellari, Stat News | Obesity 2016 7 Ways to be a Better Journalist in 2017 By Sandy K. Johnson 2016 was undeniably a mixed bag for journalists. Let’s make 2017 the year we get our reputations back. Some suggestions for the New Year: 1. Take inspiration from spectacular journalism produced by fellow journalists in 2016. These examples just happen to be National Press Foundation award winners. #GoodReads 2. We’re all fact-checkers now. 2016 brought us not only politicians’ lies and exaggerations, but actual fake news. Teach yourself how to fact-check by learning from the best, like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org. 3. Prepare yourself to cover one-party government. Your colleagues offer tips for reporting on executive authority and covering the GOP-controlled Congress. 4. Use crowdsourcing as a reporting tool, as David Fahrenthold did to investigate Donald Trump’s dubious charitable giving. 5. Pay it forward. Share with your colleagues these two journalism awards that open for entries Jan. 17: the Mattingly award for mental health reporting carries a $10,000 prize and the Stokes award for energy/environment reporting has a $2,000 honorarium. 6. Learn to incorporate investigative reporting techniques into your daily beat. Apply tips from award-winning investigative journalists. 7. Need to recharge your enthusiasm? No matter what your beat is, NPF has resources that will make you a better reporter and give you some fresh story ideas. Click around our digital content. |