Catherine Sweeney, Author at Poynter

Catherine Sweeney

The pandemic changed restaurants. Here’s how food writers adjusted.

They’ve used data, source building and good old-fashioned reporting

June 5, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

Journalists know trauma, but COVID-19 might expose them to something new: anticipatory trauma

“We are anticipating the unknown losses. Will they be our friends?”

May 1, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

No walk and talks. No press gaggles. Capitol Hill and statehouse reporting look pretty different during a pandemic.

Without walk and talks and press gaggles, Capitol Hill and statehouse reporting is looking pretty…

April 20, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

Fundraisers to help laid-off and furloughed journalists are springing up across the U.S.

One relief fund has raised more $38,000 and about 110 journalists have requested aid from it so far.

April 6, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

Dedicated health care reporters bring necessary background knowledge to newsrooms’ coronavirus pandemic coverage

The pandemic has shined a light on the kinds of background knowledge and source potential that such journalists possess.

April 1, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

How lessons from covering a bombing and a tornado will help you cover a pandemic

Ziva Branstetter covered the OKC bombing, the Joplin tornado and a botched execution in Oklahoma. Now she's helping direct coronavirus coverage

March 25, 2020

Catherine Sweeney

A North Carolina nonprofit assembled an emergency team to report on the coronavirus across the state

Newsrooms across the country are scrambling to cover the most widespread epidemic in a century.…

March 23, 2020

Catherine Sweeney