Apply for AwardsNPF Journalism Awards — Applications Open!Nine awards — $40,000 in prizes — for best coverage of trade, tech, Congress and more. The application deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 30. New Awards for Reporting on Poverty and InequalityNPF will be giving three $4,000 prizes to honor the best reporting on children in poverty in America for work published or broadcast between Sept. 2-30. The awards are designated for newsrooms of various sizes. Freelancers may also apply. The deadline is Oct. 1. Details here. Please read the eligibility requirements carefully. Applicants must attend at least two of the online NPF Poverty and Inequality 2020 briefings. (This includes today’s briefing on “Poverty as a Pre-Existing Health Condition” and the Sept. 23 briefing on children’s health. Register here.) These awards and the “Poverty and Inequality 2020” training series are funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Heising-Simons Foundation; NPF is solely responsible for the content. NPF UpcomingSept. 20 is the Trump administration’s deadline for TikTok to find a U.S. buyer. This briefing, to be held the next day, will discuss whether and how TikTok poses a threat to national security. It will also explore broader questions about the collection of personal and corporate data by Chinese companies and Chinese investment in U.S. businesses. Is TikTok’s treasure trove of personal data any more threatening to national security than what U.S. tech companies already collect — or to the hacked data that anyone can buy on the dark web? This panel will explore the new digital trade war between the U.S. and China, including the implications of banning foreign companies that have potentially powerful technologies from U.S. markets, the risks of retaliation, the effects on foreign direct investment and the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Speakers: This program is sponsored by the Hinrich Foundation, an Asia-based philanthropic organization that works to advance mutually beneficial and sustainable global trade. NPF is solely responsible for the content. The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the National Press Foundation and the RAND Corporation are offering journalists a new way to prepare for the unexpected in "Election 2020: Gaming your coverage plan." Registration is open for this free program. Laws that make it harder for people to vote can undermine a citizen’s fundamental rights — and, in the worst cases, amount to voter suppression. This National Press Foundation briefing will help reporters cover changes to voting laws and rules in their states. These include voter ID laws, purges of voter registration rolls, the voting rights of felons, polling place closures or consolidation, electioneering intimidation and more — including advice on what voters can do if they are refused a ballot. Speakers: Wendy Weiser, vice president of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice This program is sponsored by Arnold Ventures. NPF is solely responsible for the content. Resources for ReportersWhat has COVID-19 taught us about the physiology of poverty and inequality? Why do the poor and disadvantaged in many countries have worse outcomes when they are infected with the coronavirus than those of higher social or economic status? What has the pandemic taught us about the role of discrimination and inequality in determining health outcomes? Speakers: This is the first briefing in the series “Learning from the Pandemic,” jointly presented by the National Press Foundation and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States. This is an educational program for U.S. journalists and foreign correspondents based in the United States. Registration is limited. Attendance at this training qualifies for the Poverty and Inequality 2020 Awards. This program is sponsored by Bayer LLC. The National Press Foundation and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States are solely responsible for the content. Building a Movement to Eradicate PovertyThe Rev. William J. Barber II — president of Repairers of the Breach, a board member of the NAACP and a longtime social justice leader — examined how poverty affects diverse populations (old and young, Black and white, urban and rural), and he discussed how to find the people and the stories behind the statistics. The Science of Fighting PovertyTo study poverty, Nobel Prize-winning MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee has made the world his laboratory. His tool: the randomized controlled trial, long a mainstay of medical research but one that had not been widely incorporated into economics. Using such trials, Banerjee has been able to examine the claim that poor people won’t keep working if offered aid (they will), that tiny “microloans” are a way to pull people out of poverty (they generally aren’t) and that people abuse welfare rolls (they don’t). How Poverty and COVID Shape Children's LivesResearchers have long known that pandemics and disasters can cause both immediate and long-term harm to children — to their brain development, their health and their education. So does chronic poverty. When COVID-19 hit, Anna Johnson of Georgetown University already had projects in the field studying pre-kindergarten programs and food insecurity. She and Hirokazu Yoshikawa of New York University discussed what early findings reveal about the effects of COVID-19 on this generation of children and the ways that poverty accentuates those harms. Marijuana legalization. Abortion restrictions. Tax increases. Minimum wage. Affirmative action. Bond measures. Policing reforms. These issues and more are on Nov. 3 election ballots at the state and local level, with the potential to impact millions of people. A trio of experts — Ryan Byrne of Ballotpedia, John Matsusaka of the University of Southern California’s Initiative and Referendum Institute and Pete Quist of the National Institute on Money and Politics — offered advice on how to explain often-confusing ballot measure language to voters and how to follow the big campaign donations behind the issues. This program was sponsored by Arnold Ventures. NPF is solely responsible for the content. Jennifer Hillman of the Council on Foreign Relations argued that the World Trade Organization is an indispensable institution and should be revived and reformed as a referee with power to enforce global trade rules. Former U.S. trade official Andrea Durkin, editor of TradeVistas.org, presented new polling data showing that 19% of Americans “strongly support” U.S. withdrawal from the WTO and 17% “somewhat support” it; 35% are “indifferent” or “unsure”; and 28% oppose it (with 18% of those “strongly” opposed). Bryce Baschuk of Bloomberg News in Geneva offered tips for journalists who need to cover the WTO from afar and shared useful website links. This program was sponsored by the Hinrich Foundation. NPF is solely responsible for the content. Fellow WorkEric Falquero, Street Sense: “What can happen when the police are asked to respond to a mental health crisis in DC?” Plus Eric’s personal comment about NPF training: “I published a longform story on the intersection of mental health and the criminal justice system in DC. Your fellowship, particularly the sections on mental health community courts and mental health in jails, yet again prepared me for it. I just wanted to say thank you again for the opportunity.” Christine Ro, Forbes: “Pay People To Take The Covid-19 Vaccine? Lessons From International Development” Jay Cridlin, Tampa Bay Times: “10 loans, one address: Tampa philanthropist’s hotels got millions in federal aid” Rhea Mahbubani, Business Insider: “More than 200 of the US's worst-performing nursing homes received millions of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program” Emily Mullin, Medium: “Vaccine Tech 30 Years in the Making Is Getting Put to the Ultimate Test” Friends of NPFWharton Seminars for Business Journalists — Applications Open The Wharton School invites business journalists to apply for the flagship Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program, to be held online Oct. 26-27. Space is limited. The application deadline is Friday, Oct. 16. |