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reporting
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Conference coverage 101: New tip sheet can ease your experience at the event
Covering medical conferences is the bread and butter of many health journalists, especially if they write for trade publications. A…
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Freelance investigative reporting may not be easy, but it’s possible
Investigative reporting is not easy as a freelance journalist, but it’s not impossible either. The Health Journalism 2019 session on…
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Checking conflicts of interest: If cutting corners, at least do it right
Sometimes you have to learn things the hard way to get them right the next time – even when you…
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When is an interviewee’s sexual preference relevant to your story?
Sensitivity in writing about research related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals means more than paying attention to language…
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Study: Newspaper coverage rarely reflects medical evidence over time
Journalists are in love with reporting new findings about a disease and a particular risk factor, but they are not…
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For context, add global dimension to your reporting
Veteran health care journalist Trudy Lieberman says that she’s long observed that U.S. health reporters are reluctant to reach out…
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Be cautious about superlatives in cancer drug reporting
For much of modern medical history, the elusive holy grail of medical research has been a “cure for cancer.” Today,…
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Hospital association official confuses news reporting with lobbying
Blythe Bernhard and Jeremy Kohler have been writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about Missouri hospitals’ unwillingness to publicly disclose…
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AHCJ asks FDA to re-evaluate embargo policy
The Association of Health Care Journalists has sent a letter to FDA officials asking them to re-examine a policy that…
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Schwitzer’s year-end thoughts on health journalism
Gary Schwitzer, publisher of HealthNewsReview.org and an associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication,…