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SF Bay Area station runs sponsored health ‘news’
Michael Mechanic, a senior editor at Mother Jones, blogs about airtime for sale at KRON-San Francisco, a television station that…
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Food safety initiatives will be subject of online chat
The Obama administration has created a deputy food commissioner position to coordinate safety in the case of an outbreak of…
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Health Policy czar was director at troubled firms
Fred Schulte, with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, reviewed government documents to find that Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of…
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Report: $25,000 buys access to Post’s health reporters
Mike Allen of Politico.com reports that The Washington Post is offering off-the-record access to its reporters, for a price. A…
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Series on drug sales wins national Murrow award
AHCJ member Kelley Weiss of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award from the…
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Reporters: Obama’s town-hall-style health care reform meeting ‘tightly controlled’
At 1:15 ET, President Obama is scheduled to answer questions about health care reform at a live, online town-hall-style meeting.…
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Reporter honored for story on mental health system
Carol Smith, formerly of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, won a 2009 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism. The contest, presented by the…
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Gawande responds to critics of health cost piece
Atul Gawande, M.D., who recently wrote a much-discussed article about health care costs, has responded to his critics in a…
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Drug company-sponsored training draws fire
Gary Schwitzer, a professor in the University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication and publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, calls…
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GAO review finds fault in FDA’s device oversight
The Government Accountability Office looked into how the FDA oversees medical devices and found that it does not review all…