Join AHCJ in congratulating members John Fauber, Rhiannon Meyers, Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Jennifer LaFleur for their recent accomplishments.
Read on for details about their work and honors.
John Fauber, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is being honored by the Association for Medical Ethics for his reporting on the “influence of drug and medical device company money on medical research and the practice of medicine” in his Side Effects series, which has also been published by MedPage Today. Fauber is the first recipient of the Association for Medical Ethics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism and Advancing Transparency in Medicine. AME will present the lifetime achievement award at its symposium, “Under the Influence – Medicine in the Post Physician Payment Sunshine Act World – Changes, Challenges and Confusion” on Feb. 28. Trudy Lieberman, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, awarded Fauber a “Laurel” for his coverage of “the underexplored, story-ripe intersection of medicine and business.”
Rhiannon Meyers, a reporter at the Corpus Christi, Texas, Caller-Times, received an Advocacy Award from the local chapter of the American Diabetes Association for her yearlong series on diabetes in that community. Meyers worked on the project as part of her Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists and supported by The Commonwealth Fund.
Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, Jennifer LaFleur, Jeff Larson and Lena Groeger of ProPublica have won first place in the 2013 Philip Meyer Awards for their “Prescribers” series. The work analyzed government data to find that “Medicare’s abject failure to oversee its prescription drug program led to billions of dollars of waste on needlessly expensive drugs, opened the door to rampant fraud, and allowed doctors to administer potentially harmful medications to patients, particularly the elderly.” The awards are in honor of Philip Meyer, professor emeritus and former Knight Chair of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
