Covering the ongoing bird flu story: Identifying appropriate sources

Covering the ongoing bird flu story: Identifying appropriate sources

In our first post, we provided a very broad overview of the ongoing bird flu situation. This post will focus specifically on stories reporters can do on ecological health issues, including veterinary, agricultural and wildlife angles — areas that have been underreported by health journalists but are particularly important at the local level.  Identifying the right sources A key skill in reporting on the many different angles of highly pathogenic…