![]() ![]() The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) funded their work. In partnership with Institute for Nonprofit News, I taught a workshop for rural, nonprofit newsrooms on how to use this recipe. In addition to writing the recipe, I shared code explaining how to process those files and made a simplified spreadsheet available that enables any reporter to check trends at their local facilities. ![]() ![]() Staffing, in particular, can be tricky to write about because the best data has long been trapped in files with millions of rows that cannot be opened in Excel, the primary tool of most local reporters. This is a wonky world of federal health care regulation enforced through contracts with the states. I recently wrote a recipe for Big Local News that walked reporters through the basics of writing about staffing levels at nursing homes. Organizations like Big Local News, OpenNews and Solutions Journalism Network have grown one method sometimes called “recipes.” It’s an evolution of the tip sheet from a list of potential document sources and background reading to include more explicit suggestions on how to analyze a data set or report a local story. A service-focused approach to the work requires reporters to help each other navigate complex, vital topics. But keeping that knowledge isolated is bad for our communities. Here’s one way I recently did:įor a reporter, expertise is job security. National newsrooms should do more to support it. Local journalism is critical to our country. ![]()
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