NPF Joins Call to Halt Police Violence on Journalists
The National Press Foundation joined 28 news organizations in signing a letter to law enforcement officials, mayors and governors from across the country to halt the unprecedented assault against journalists in the field covering protests for social justice. Read the full letter here.
Upcoming Online Trainings
Techno-Nationalism:
Covering the U.S.-China Battle for Technological and Geopolitical Dominance
Tuesday, June 9 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern
The National Press Foundation is running a series of 10 online trainings for journalists on covering global trade issues in the era of COVID-19. The first two explored disruptions in the supply chains for food and medical goods. Up next: “Techno-Nationalism: Covering the U.S.-China Battle for Technological and Geopolitical Dominance.” Join us for a briefing on the rise of techno-nationalism with experts from Singapore to Washington: Alex Capri of the Hinrich Foundation and the National University of Singapore, Yukon Huang of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Martijn Rasser of the Center for a New American Security. Register here.
This program is sponsored by the Hinrich Foundation, an Asia-based philanthropic organization that works to advance mutually beneficial and sustainable global trade. NPF retains sole responsibility for programming and content of the briefings.
Tracking Coronavirus Relief Funds:
How to Follow the Taxpayers' Money
July 13-17, 2020
The National Press Foundation will offer a free online training program for 25 journalists to help them track how federal pandemic assistance funds are being used. The training will be held for two hours per day from July 13-17 (10 hours total). Fellows will be offered subsequent confidential follow-up sessions with experts and data analysts to help them bring their stories to successful publication.
This NPF training will feature experts in corporate accountability as well as in specific tools and data analysis techniques to help journalists cross-reference data sets, vet their assumptions and have confidence in their analytic results. Some slots in this training will be reserved for reporters from underfunded or local newsrooms who are tracking taxpayer funds allocated to smaller, rural or underserved communities. Apply here.
Support for this training is provided by the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation. NPF retains sole responsibility for programming and content.
Online Training Roundup
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, NPF has hosted Zoom briefings and workshops to help journalists understand and cover the pandemic. Here are the most recent:
Global Trade: A Pandemic Primer
Where’s Our Food?
In the first of 10 briefings on global trade, Ambassador Darci Vetter, Shefali Kapadia of Supply Chain Dive at IndustryDive.com, and Simon Evenett, founder of Global Trade Alert and a professor of international trade and economic development at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, discussed bottlenecks in the food supply chain due to COVID-19, as well as globalization and its effect on U.S.-Chinese relations. Find the resources from the training here.
Global Trade: A Pandemic Primer
The Search for Medical Supplies
Supply chains for vital medical supplies have been scrambled by COVID-19 – so much so that the United States has trouble supplying its hospitals with simple face masks. Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine”; Sébastien Miroudot, a senior trade policy analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; and Gary Gereffi of Duke University shed light on why the U.S. hasn’t been able to procure necessary medical supplies. Find the resources from the training here.
Tracking the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Social media messaging urging U.S. citizens to reject vaccinations has roughly tripled since the COVID-19 pandemic began and is now driving an increase in public suspicion about vaccines. In an online training, Joe Smyser, CEO of The Public Good Projects, showed journalists how to use a new digital tool called Project VCTR that can track anti-vax messengers and messages across Twitter, Facebook, popular websites and other platforms. To watch the tutorial, click here.
Here are some recent stories from NPF online training participants.
Trade expert sees positive trend in pandemic | Arvin Danley | World-Grain.com
Challenges to the Food Supply Chain | Amie Simpson | Brownfield Ag News
Food Supply Chains | Patricia Villone | CTV News
Keeping international trade flowing will help avoid, not cause, domestic food shortages, panelists say | Richard Morrison | IEG Policy Agribusiness
$19 Billion In Relief On The Way For Farmers | Whitney Downard | Ink Free News
China holds the keys in production of virus vaccine | Shannon Teoh | The Straits Times
'Unrealistic' to bring all production back to US | Charissa Yong | The Straits Times
Coronavirus: China a winner no matter who comes first in global race for vaccine | Shannon Teoh | The Straits Times
