Nurse Barbara Smith practices proper hand hygiene while demonstrating the the use of personal protective equipment when dealing with Ebola during an education session in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Thousands of participants, mostly health care workers, attended the session to review basic facts about Ebola and updated guidelines for protection against its spread. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Poynter’s News University will host a live conversation at 10:30 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, October 23, on covering Ebola.
The discussion, which is free, includes Poynter’s Kelly McBride and Tom Huang with The Dallas Morning News. I’ll be hosting the conversation.
Questions we’ll take on include the following (from the conversation’s description):
How to cover the topic with context and accuracy
How to debunk myths about the Ebola virus
How to find untold stories
Ways you can localize the story for your community
What do you want to know about covering Ebola? Email me or tweet questions and I’ll try and work them in. An archived replay will be available after the session. You can follow the conversation on Twitter with #CoveringEbola. For more, visit News University’s Covering Ebola page.
And here’s a quick look at some of the ways we’ve covered Ebola so far at Poynter.
The readers’ quick guide for understanding a medical crisis
When writing about Ebola, what images should you use?
Journalists struggle to balance reporting on Ebola with HIPAA
From Dallas, 5 tips on covering Ebola
How journalists covering the Ebola outbreak try to stay safe
