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Presidents of AHCJ, SPJ call for more openness from Obama administration
The presidents of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists published an op-ed in The…
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Affordable Care Act reaches one-year mark
The Affordable Care Act became law one year ago today. The biggest provisions – the state-based exchanges and the subsidies…
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Journalists must heed ethics in disaster coverage
A little more than a week after the historic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan, journalists are beginning to…
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‘Do No Harm’ team captures another award
AHCJ member Marshall Allen and Alex Richards have won the investigative reporting category in the 2010 Scripps Howard Awards for…
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Navigators work to keep patients from falling through cracks
Patient navigators – “like the air traffic controllers in health care” – captured the attention of Pamela Fayerman of the…
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Panel focuses on Health Policy anniversary
Support for Health Policy has been complicated by political rhetoric and the general public’s lack of knowledge about the Affordable…
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Members’ investigations prompt bills in Wash.
Three health-related bills moving through the Washington legislature came about as a result of articles reported by AHCJ members at…
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Senators join fight to open Medicare claims data
Two senators have joined the effort to open up the Medicare claims database that reveals what payments doctors get through…
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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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EWA winners include health-related stories
The Education Writers Association announced the winners of the 2010 National Awards for Education Reporting yesterday. Since education and health…