The COVID-19 crisis is a challenge for everyone, personally and professionally. Under difficult circumstances, the response from the education journalism community has been impressive.
To support these efforts in the weeks ahead, The Grade is going to begin providing additional information and resources, including a new daily update and more reported stories about topics important to education journalists.
We want to support this important work in every way possible.
NEW: A DAILY UPDATE
In the past three weeks, we’ve highlighted the amazing surge in high-quality education coverage, explored how reporters are doing their jobs while keeping themselves safe, and identified storylines that may need additional attention now that nearly all schools are closed.
But we want to do much more. And so, each afternoon between 4 and 5 p.m. Eastern starting today, we’ll begin publishing a daily roundup featuring some of the top stories of the day, new resources that have come online, and suggestions for further investigation.
To read the daily update, follow The Grade on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Or bookmark the page and check it every day around 4 p.m. Eastern. The Friday weekly email will continue. Sign up here if you’re not already getting it.
NEW: MORE FREQUENT STORIES
In addition, The Grade will replace its weekly in-depth columns with a more frequent schedule of short, informative stories on issues related to coronavirus coverage and education.
Who stepped out of the routine-reporting box to look at a bigger issue? Who checked on people whose situations have been underreported? We’ll be writing about them.
We will also address topics such as how different news outlets and teams have refocused their reporting in recent weeks, what reporters and editors are doing to bring variety and depth to their coverage, and what experts have to say about covering the complex, fast-moving story.
Got a question that needs answering, a suggestion about something great that’s being done, or a concern about how something is being covered? Tell us all about it at @thegrade_ or thegrade2015@gmail.com.
Thanks!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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