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Skyrocketing drug price is chance to examine manufacturing, FDA approval process
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter (and Midwest Health Journalism Program Fellow) Jim Doyle has put together a series of stories on KV…
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Should Seattle Superfund site address health as well as pollution?
InvestigateWest’s Carol Smith writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and InvestigateWest.org that the focus on the environmental disaster of Seattle’s industrial…
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Reporter shares lessons from writing first-person medical stories
Late last year, the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor ran a series of stories in which reporter Meg Heckman used her…
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Journalist makes case against sanitizing disaster coverage
At a time when the ethics of anecdotal and emotion-heavy disaster coverage have come into question, as they tend to…
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Survey: Only half of federal agencies have better FOI procedures
A report from the Knight Open Government Survey found that, despite some progress, federal agencies are only halfway there when…
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Berens wins Nieman award for adult homes series
The Harvard-based Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected AHCJ member and Seattle Times reporter Michael Berens for the $20,000 2010…
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Online comments lead to BMJ’s disclosure of ‘competing interests’
In BMJ, Bob Roehr wrote about a report published by German researchers in the Canadian Medical Association Journal describing an…
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Fact-checking Pawlenty’s Health Policy claims
In some parts of the country, health care-related posturing for the 2012 election is already in full swing. Over at…
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Were journalists ‘fabulously naïve’ about human genome?
As Tinker Ready reported on the Nature Network’s Boston Blog, the luminaries gathered for Harvard’s panel on the 10-year anniversary…
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NYT’s health editor takes over the science section
Barbara Strauch, who has been the deputy science editor charged with coordinating The New York Times‘ health and medical coverage,…