Coronavirus Resource Survey

The USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California has been training, mentoring and supporting journalists for 15 years as they report on health challenges and opportunities. In the midst of one of the greatest health challenges the nation has ever faced, we may be able to provide additional resources to journalists and their newsrooms. Please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey to share your ideas about how we could be most helpful.

Please be sure to click "DONE" at the end to save your answers.

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* Title/Job Function

Editor

Staff Reporter

Freelance Reporter

Video Journalist

Photographer

Other

If other, be more specific, if you wish

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* Is your news outlet:

Online

Radio

Video/TV

Other

If other, please specify

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* What language does your news outlet report in?

English

Spanish

Chinese

Korean

Other

If other, please specify

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* What is your state?

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* 1. Please rank your current personal or organizational challenges in providing your community with coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak (select 1 for the highest priority and 6 for lowest).

Making strategic decisions about how to deploy newsroom resources

My own lack of expertise on epidemics (if you're a reporter) or lack of expertise in my newsroom (if you're an editor)

Protecting myself (if you're a reporter) or my reporters (if you're an editor) and making sure they're not a risk to the people with whom they interact

Getting past breaking news to think about bigger stories

Coping with the ethical issues connected to reporting on COVID-19 (privacy of victims, racial or ethnic profiling, inadvertently showcasing fraudulent "cures" or interventions, and so on)

Connecting with my community, given social distancing or shelter in place requirements

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* Other feedback?

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* 2. Please rank the following ways we might help (select 1 for the highest priority and 9 for lowest).

Provide guides to sources

Share daily or weekly tracker of best stories around the country

Share daily or weekly tracker of ideas for upcoming stories/angles/approaches

Provide funds to support coverage of the epidemic

Provide training on covering an epidemic and its long-term consequences

Mentor on engaged reporting strategies on COVID-19

Organize a Reporting Collaborative on coronavirus

Offer easy ways to destress while covering this crisis

Host regular virtual conversations with experts

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* Please share other suggestions or needs.

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* If the Center were able to provide funding, how might you or your newsroom use the funding?

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* 3. Let us know how valuable it would be to you if the Center could provide reporting on how vulnerable families are affected to highlight inequities and opportunities for change.

Very valuable

Valuable

Somewhat valuable

Not valuable

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Let us know if you or your newsroom would be interested in participating in a Reporting Collaborative on coronavirus. (Our Reporting Collaboratives provide project management, editing and funding, with stories running in all participating outlets.) You can view examples of the reporting from our previous Collaboratives at this link.

My newsroom would be interested in considering participation

As soon as possible

In a month

After the crisis subsides, when the reporting would focus on the aftermath

I would prefer a statewide collaborative

I would prefer a national collaborative

I would prefer participating in a collaborative with management and editing by the Center for Health Journalism

I would prefer funding so we can organize a collaborative project on coronavirus ourselves

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* Additional comments?

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* Please share your contact info so we can follow up with you and let you know what help we can provide. We won't share your information.

Name

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* Email Address (Only for follow-up. We won't share.)

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* Phone Number (Only for follow-up. We won't share.)

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* Media Outlet Name or denote Freelance (if applicable)

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey
during this very challenging time. If you have questions about this survey or want to know more about the Center for Health Journalism, write CAHealth@usc.edu or visit www.CenterforHealthJournalism.org

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* Title/Job Function

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* Is your news outlet:

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* What language does your news outlet report in?

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* What is your state?

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* 1. Please rank your current personal or organizational challenges in providing your community with coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak (select 1 for the highest priority and 6 for lowest).

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* Other feedback?

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* 2. Please rank the following ways we might help (select 1 for the highest priority and 9 for lowest).

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* Please share other suggestions or needs.

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* If the Center were able to provide funding, how might you or your newsroom use the funding?

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* 3. Let us know how valuable it would be to you if the Center could provide reporting on how vulnerable families are affected to highlight inequities and opportunities for change.

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* Additional comments?

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* Please share your contact info so we can follow up with you and let you know what help we can provide. We won't share your information.Name

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* Email Address (Only for follow-up. We won't share.)

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* Phone Number (Only for follow-up. We won't share.)

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* Media Outlet Name or denote Freelance (if applicable)

* Please share your contact info so we can follow up with you and let you know what help we can provide. We won't share your information.

Name