You're supposed to wash your hands for 20 sec, which is the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But I'm tired of singing Happy Birthday and you probably are too, so I've done the very important public service of compiling other songs with roughly 20 sec choruses to sing:

Among Americans who are currently employed, only 36% say they would continue to get paid if they’re unable to work for two weeks or more because of the coronavirus. pewrsr.ch/2vw2no1

Most companies should find something they love as much as H-E-B seems to love emergency preparedness. texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepa…

Calling it now. We’re not making April Fool’s jokes next week. Not allowed. Maybe next year.

At @engagingnews.bsky.social, we wanted to do something to help during the covid-19 pandemic. So we fielded a survey and did a content analysis to find out the critical information being provided by local newsrooms and desired by audiences. Check out what we learned. mediaengagement.org/research/coron…

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We followed up on our COVID/local news coverage research one month later. Notable shifts in (1) what audiences want from local news, (2) what local news is covering, and even (3) what type of local news content is getting the most engagement on Facebook

I need an app that connects you to someone who just finished the same book you did so you can talk about it.

These two projects, with @carolinecmurray and Alex Curry, dampened my hopes that newsrooms could implement small changes to address polarization. Back to the drawing board.

Can newsrooms help counteract coronavirus news fatigue through headlines and images on Facebook? Here’s a quick video that explains what we found. Read more: bit.ly/CMEHeadlinesIm… TEXAS Moody

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Dallas residents, we want to hear from you! How do you get news & information about Dallas? What stories need to be told about your community? How can local news serve you better? You can access the Dallas Free Press survey in English and Spanish here: bit.ly/3b7v5OD

Newsrooms, we'd love you to get involved in this project to help serve your communities better. medium.com/trusting-news/…

Even though solutions journalism isn’t about “feeling good” per se, it’s worth saying that journalism that inspires positive emotions isn’t inherently less serious.

In a huge departure, The Associated Press will no longer name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chance AP will provide coverage beyond the initial arrest. This is an effort to minimize harm on suspects’ who later gain employment or just move on in their lives.

Call for Participants: "True Costs of Misinformation" Workshop. Inviting folks to an ambitiously interdisciplinary in-person workshop that Read -Meme Wars- & the TaSC team are organizing at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center in March 2022. Please share widely! shorensteincenter.org/true-costs-mis…

🧵 How can people talk politics online without driving others away? New research says writing with humility might be the key. bit.ly/CMEPoliticsAnd… TEXAS Moody

A program is asking Americans from across the political spectrum to stop demonizing one another and start communicating as part of the oral history project called StoryCorps. Norah O'Donnell reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com