
Felice J. Freyer is a health care journalist who recently left a 10-year stint at the Boston Globe to launch a freelance career. In her years at the Globe, and before that the Providence Journal, she has covered virtually all aspects of health care and medicine, always seeking out the human stories behind medical science and policy. At the Journal, she was honored as “Master Reporter” by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. Her series chronicling a burn victim’s recovery after the notorious Station fire was part of a package selected as a Pulitzer finalist. Freyer has served as AHCJ president since 2021. She is also an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College.
A South Dakota newspaper on Tuesday won a seven-year legal battle to obtain information about retailers who participate in the…
Privacy laws, such as HIPAA, are the bane of health journalism. No matter how fervently you wish to preserve patient…
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AHCJ has strengthened its ethical standards on funding for the annual conference, enhancing the ethics code established at our inception…
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AHCJ this week called on the new secretary of health and human services to hold frequent, open press conferences, and…
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The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services has decided not to extend the contract of the communications consultant who threatened…
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has promised Modern Healthcare that all of its reporters will have access to…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services threatened to ban a reporter from participating in the federal agency’s telephone news…
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Media officers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have promised to make top HHS officials available to…
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Imagine you’re researching a story about a new medical device undergoing federal review. You send an email to a source…
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AHCJ’s board of directors has voted unanimously to add a new item to its Statement of Principles, the association’s compendium of…