Medill Hub launches Rapid Response Toolkit for solutions-oriented crisis coverage

New resource guides journalists in providing actionable community reporting during emergencies

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EVANSTON, ILL. — The Medill Solutions Journalism Hub at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications has released a comprehensive Rapid Response Kit designed to help newsrooms deliver response-driven coverage during community crises.

Titled The Fire Next Time, the toolkit uses Chicago’s ongoing federal immigration enforcement operations as a case study to demonstrate how journalists and storytellers can provide context, analysis and actionable information serving communities in their most vulnerable moments.

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