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Journalism schools must do a better job teaching students the value and challenges of freelancing — and the skills to do it well.

With limited testing supplies and thousands of students returning from winter break amid a record-breaking COVID-19 surge, heres what Sacramento County schools are trying to do to prevent the spread of the virus.

School districts in Sacramento County started picking up their supply of at-home COVID-19 rapid test kits for students on Tuesday.

Omicron is spiking among a very specific group of people.

What to Do With a Day Off Step 1: Remember to actually take the day off. Credit...Rose Wong What does a day off even mean right now? It’s tough to go anywhere during a pandemic, because many of the places we might have visited are closed or restricted to us. It’s hard to dedicate time to tasks like working on your finances with so much uncertainty, and the “recovery” isn’t really a recovery for everyone. And our work lives are encroaching on our personal lives more than ever, so do we...

Managing Up: How to deal with a bad boss during COVID-19 quarantine By this point, those of us who have moved to working from home have figured out the big stuff. Nearly a year into the pandemic most of us are making it work, but there are certain things about communicating digitally that don’t always translate so easily, and of those things, experts said, is how we communicate with our bosses. New York Times February 03, 2021 / 02:00 PM IST Th...

Download these apps to help with your 2021 resolutions Duration: 07:42 No matter what your resolutions are for 2021, there’s surely apps out there to help you along the way. Hoda and Jenna invite Smarter Living editor Tim Herrera to the show to share helpful apps. Plus, we hear from four staffers who did some app research of their own.

In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top A tough year turned out to be good for rescue animals, rotten bananas and more. Lucky dog: Cleo was adopted by photographer Farah Al Qasimi this year.Credit...Farah Al Qasimi By The Styles Desk Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 20, 2020 We may think of 2020 as a year of seemingly endless bad news as the pandemic threatened our health, forced us to stay at home and upended most facets of life. But it wasn’t all bad. Here’s a look at some of the things ...

Bob Dunning: Where we were and where we are This is the time of year when economists and social scientists and political reporters and even sportswriters put out their predictions for the new year. That’s all well and good, but what I really like to do is save all those predictions from last December and early January and compare them to what actually happened in the previous 12 months. That would be especially interesting when it comes to 2020, described by many of us as a year like no other...

>> James Poniewozik, The New York Times Published: 14 Dec 2020 10:51 AM BdST Updated: 14 Dec 2020 10:51 AM BdST As a global pandemic left us homebound, cousin Emily in Pittsburgh existed on the same plane as “Emily in Paris.” (Hanna Barczyk/The New York Times) The year is coming to a close, which means it’s time for critics like me to look back on the most memorable television of 2020. There was “I May Destroy You,” Michaela Coel’s tour de force on HBO. There was “Palm Springs�...