Covering coronavirus: The nursing home tragedy
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
10 a.m. – 11 a.m. PT
Online
Join the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism on Wednesday, June 24 at 10 a.m. as ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein and Reuters’ Kirk Kirkham will look at strategies for reporting on the shortcomings of nursing homes, which have exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis. We’ll also learn how to use a ProPublica database of 80,000 nursing home inspection reports detailing fines and infection-control lapses to pinpoint urgent stories about some of your community’s most vulnerable residents.