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Vaccine Misinformation Management Field Guide: Guidance for Addressing a Global Infodemic and Fostering Demand for Immunization
New York: UNICEF (2020), 61 pp.
"This guide should help practitioners to: develop an evidence-grounded understanding of misinformation in the context of vaccination, how it spreads and gets traction, what can be done to mitigate its impact; implement evidence-based approaches to address misinformation; develop a comprehensive and
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Your Safety as a Journalist Reporting COVID-19
Internews (2020), 3 pp.
Real-Time Rumor Tracking for COVID-19: System Design and Implementation Guide
Breakthrough Action; USAID (2020), 27 pp.
"This document is written for humanitarian or public health organizations as well as national governments seeking to document rumors in a systematic and dynamic fashion. First, the document provides an overview of the role of rumors in a public health or humanitarian emergency, followed by a summary
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Report: The Perception of COVID-19 Communication in West Africa (non-Sahel)
Abuja: UNESCO (2020), 25 pp.
"According to the respondents (522 respondents), people pay most attention to "prevention methods from COVID-19" (3.82 out of the full score 5). On the contrary, the respondents pay relatively less attention to "Pandemic Statistics (local, national, and international)" (3.55 out of the full score 5)
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"In the context of the COVID 19 pandemic, effective communication on migration and integration has helped governments achieve crucial policy objectives: First, in order to limit the spread of the virus, governments need to provide all parts of the population, including migrants, with timely and accu
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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.
"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate
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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Ghana, March - June
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 7 pp.
"The media in Ghana have had relatively free space to operate even amidst the COVID-19 restrictions. The traditional legal texts and the new emergency laws adopted by the government to fight the pandemic have not been used to violate press freedom. The media have, therefore, discharged with distinct
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"This resource offers a tool for news organizations to adopt safety protocols that respond to the extraordinary circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The document seeks to empower commissioning editors to improve and adapt safety practices so the pandemic is covered professionally and in a
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From Distrust to Solidarity: How Can We Inform People About Coronavirus? Recommendations
Lviv; London: Public Interest Journalism Lab; Lviv Media Forum; London School of Economics and Political Science (2020), 17 pp.
"The audience has clear requests concerning the presentation of information and the range of themes. In our opinion the following observations are most important: There is a need to separate useful information in the media from “information noise”, as the latter can raise anxiety. Trust is felt
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Social Media and Vaccine Hesitancy: New Updates for the Era of COVID-19 and Globalized Infectious Diseases
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 16, issue 11 (2020), pp. 2586-2593
"Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources,
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Tools for News Reporting During Social Distancing
Internews (2020), 8 pp.
"With many workplaces in semi or total lockdown in response to COVID-19, many journalists are adjusting to the new reality of working from home. This affects the way we report on our communities, the type of observations we can include in our stories and shifts our focus online. But how do we ensure
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Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start - and Why They Don't Go Away
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xli, 157 pp.
"A clear-eyed, expert examination of the state of vaccine confidence globally -- and what it means for the future of life on earth. Considers the widening gulf between messages of medical authority and those on everyman platforms of our digital world, especially as it influences individual choice. C
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Improving the Response to COVID-19: Lessons from the Humanitarian Sector Around Communication, Community Engagement and Participation
CDAC Network (2020), 22 pp.
"Lesson one: Put people and principles at the centre of COVID-19 decision-making, not politics. Lesson two: Reframe discussions about responsibility in a pandemic so that those who are considered vulnerable are a priority rather than an afterthought. Lesson three: Prepare ways to share sophisticated
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"The Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) currently trains youth reporters at 68 radio stations across six African countries (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia) to produce weekly radio shows and monthly outreach activities [...] This toolkit ha
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"Though this toolkit explores COVID-19 as a focus topic, the methodology of remote outreaches and campaigns should be used in all the themes you report on in your radio shows; themes such as climate change, sexual and reproductive health, education, migration, violence and community safety, and othe
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Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response: Ethics and Governance Guidance
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2020), xiv, 139 pp.
"There is no “one size fits all” approach to digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT). Technology design should not be static, but it should be capable of evolving depending upon local conditions, new evidence, and changing preferences and priorities. Technology companies alone should not con
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