A freelancer's guide for reporting on vaccines
In this guide, freelance journalists can find tips, useful links and sources, expert databases, and tools to step up their stories about the ongoing vaccination campaigns and public debate.
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- Find the right sources and story angles: Dealing with anti-vaccination views, responsible sourcing of images, talk to a range of sources, expert databases and sourcebook
- Understand how to deal with vaccines data: Understand the context of data, trial sizes and consult experts.
- Create successful stories on vaccines that engage your audience: Words and stories matter, understand your audience and the emotive side of vaccines, story development ideas.
- Understand the vaccine development and trial processes: Reporting on vaccine trial results, understand the different stages of the development process, reporting side effects.
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