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Access Denied: Looking at a lack of health care availability
Shannon Muchmore The 2010 Health Policy law is supposed to dramatically expand coverage of the uninsured. In the meantime, there…
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Investigating North Carolina’s system of housing people with mental disabilities
Rosemary Hoban Rosemary Hoban, a reporter with North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC, compared North Carolina’s system for treating the mentally ill…
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Reporting on why some patients are stuck in hospitals
Yanick Rice Lamb Patients typically complain about being released from the hospital sooner than they would like. So Yanick Rice…
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Public reporting of patient harm is a potent force
Marshall Allen The Las Vegas Sun series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” identified cases of preventable harm…
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Hiding in plain sight: California hospital data
California journalists are lucky to have the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Despite its bureaucratic and jargony name,…
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Focus on freelancing: Tips for buying liability insurance
Some publishers and media outlets don't provide liability coverage for freelance writers' articles, and freelancers may blog or publish their…
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Covering Europe: Media must understand, explain privatization of health services
Esther Paniagua One of the points that stood out for me at the first European conference on health journalism was…
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Reporter Q&A: Duluth News Tribune exposes malpractice allegations
Brandon Stahl In May, Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune investigations editor Brandon Stahl and courts reporter Mark Stodghill published a major…
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Updated hospital data allows reporters to identify ongoing problems
After several years, a surprising number of hospitals can't seem to improve – and an elite group has been able…
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Reporter offers advice on avoiding embarrassing incident
A call from the medical examiner to my editor the morning of Friday, July 22, started the worst day of…