New England Newspaper & Press Association

The Trump administration has already had a significant impact on how the U.S. implements public health policies domestically and on a global scale. The president temporarily paused health-related communications from several federal agencies, has frozen foreign aid, and attempted to halt federal spending for public health research. And the Senate confirmed Robert F Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary.

These actions present new challenges for journalists covering public health policy, especially as some traditional sources of vital information have become unavailable in wide swaths or made more difficult to access.

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute from noon to 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, March 25 to learn how to adapt to this new environment and innovative ways to tell critical public health stories.

This program is part of the Institute’s inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship, funded by the Common Health Coalition. It’s being opened to the public at no cost.

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If you are a local nonprofit news publisher, editor, reporter, board member or donor, please mark this on your calendar: On Thursday, April 3, from 7 to 8:15 p.m., the What Works project on the future of local news, part of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, will sponsor a free webinar titled “The Ethics of Nonprofit News: What Board Members and Donors Need to Know.” Issues will include conflicts of interest and understanding the boundaries between the news and fundraising sides of a community journalism organization.

Our panelists will be Josh Stearns, managing director of programs at the Democracy Fund; Kara Meyberg Guzman, CEO and co-founder of Santa Clara Local, a nonprofit startup; and Joe Kriesberg, publisher of CommonWealth Beacon, a larger nonprofit based in Boston. The moderator will be Dan Kennedy, a professor journalism at Northeastern University and the co-author, with Ellen Clegg, of “What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate” (Beacon Press, 2024). Clegg and Kennedy also host a podcast and write about developments in local news at the What Works website.

The What Works project is part of Northeastern’s School of Journalism.

Space is limited, so please register today. Information on how to log on to this free webinar will be sent out closer to April 3.