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Weiss joins Calif. Center for Health Reporting; Udesky joins FairWarning
Folks attending Sunday’s broadcast panel at Health Journalism 2011 should know that one of the speakers, AHCJ member Kelley Weiss,…
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CMS releases hospital-by-hospital data on never events
About nine months after its original due date, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have overcome industry opposition and…
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Institute launches global health data clearinghouse
Last month, the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (about) launched the Global Health Data Exchange (or…
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Program taps public lands to improve public health
This week, National Park Service brass took to California to push its new Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative. Visitors walk…
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Series brings readers’ perspectives to obesity story
Weight loss and obesity stories are a pillar of health journalism and a flashpoint for reader interest, but they have…
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Drug-funded research group failed to disclose ties to makers of painkillers
In his latest conflict of interest investigation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber takes on a challenge that, even by…
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An inside view of writing for New York Times’ Magazine
On the blog The OPEN Notebook, New York Times Magazine contributor Robin Marantz Henig spoke frankly with Jeanne Erdmann about…
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Sponsored segments, hospital partnerships creep into news outlets
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blythe Bernhard takes a look at the fruits of the slow, steady advances hospitals and…
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Pierce uses medicine to tell a classic sports story
It has all the fixings of a front-page health narrative – the handsome baseball star, the stunning neurological condition, the…
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Allen looks at present, future of Nev. transparency
Writing for the Las Vegas Sun, reporter Marshall Allen put a fitting cap on an award-winning investigative run at the…