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Femicide — the intentional murder of women because they are women — is a global problem. According to the UN’s latest estimates, 50,000 women and girls are killed each year by intimate partners or other family members. GIJN’s latest resource aims to help journalists understand what femicide is, find and understand the data available, and suggest which experts to interview.
It is difficult to fathom how far the novel virus might spread, and what the ultimate consequences will be. With all the uncertainties, journalists around the world are faced with the many challenges of covering the epidemic — including combating misinformation and health risks to reporters in the field — while not fueling panic.
Africa’s investigative journalists are playing a critical role in unpacking the continent’s expanding pandemic and have already snapped some governments out of their early complacency on COVID-19 preparedness. However, amid warnings about the potential impact of the virus on the continent’s 1.1 billion citizens, four leading African journalists shared strategies for coverage in this critical time in a webinar attended by reporters from 57 countries.
COVID-19
Investigating health care is complex and challenging. Reporting in this field means reading lengthy documents and getting well-acquainted with medical jargon.
Regulating Drugs: Development & Approval
Tip 1: Dig Deeper into Development & Approval
If your story is about drugs, it is essential to delve into their development and approval history. There’s a trove of valuable information.
Contracts to buy COVID-19 vaccines are being kept largely confidential by the global purchasing entity started by the World Health Organization and by national governments. Here GIJN’s Toby McIntosh offers a guide to reporting on the creation and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and combating government secrecy at both the international and national levels.
First, Do No Harm. Reporting About Safety
Once a pharmaceutical product — a drug, vaccine, or medical device — has gone through the different testing phases, and the approval process with regulatory agencies, it hits the market and can be prescribed and sold.
In this year’s GIJN’s Editor’s Pick series, Bangla editor Miraj Chowdhury writes that, despite many free speech and coronavirus-related challenges, there are numerous examples of important journalistic investigations taking place in the region. Here are some of the stories that mattered the most in 2020 for the 215 million Bangla speakers around the world.
GIJN has created a multi-part guide on where to obtain data about the spread of COVID-19 and its consequences. The document links to official and unofficial international sources on health and economic data, links to information on government policy responses, and more than a dozen sites working on pandemic projection modelling.
চীন থেকে শুরু হয়ে করোনাভাইরাস ছড়িয়ে পড়ছে বিশ্বব্যাপী। উদ্বেগ-সংশয় ও অনিশ্চয়তা ঘেরা এই পরিস্থিতিতে আপনি কি শুধু সংক্রমণের সংখ্যা গুনবেন, নাকি সত্যিকারের প্রশ্ন তুলবেন, যার উত্তর জানা উচিৎ জনসাধারণের। কোভিড-১৯ নিয়ে অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকদের ভূমিকা কেমন হওয়া দরকার – বলছেন, স্বাস্থ্য বিষয়ে অভিজ্ঞ সাংবাদিক থমাস আব্রাহাম।