The Association of Health Care Journalists has rolled out another Core Curriculum topic on its website.
“Oral health” is the third in a series of core topic subject areas making up the curriculum. It is one of at least a dozen key subject areas the organization believes today’s health journalists will need to master to cover the beat well.
The new pages will provide significantly more resources while also centralizing and cataloging topic materials. It also adds the practical daily guidance of lead editor Mary Otto, who specializes in the topic.
Mary Otto, AHCJ’s topic leader on oral health is writing blog posts, editing tip sheets and articles and gathering resources to help our members cover oral health care.
If you have questions or suggestions for future resources on the topic, please send them to mary@healthjournalism.org.
Each specialty topic page includes glossaries, key concepts, reporting tip sheets, weekly blog items, first-person stories by fellow journalists, videos, data and more. The topic home page serves as a launch pad to more resources on the AHCJ website and elsewhere.
The oral health core topic debuts with a feature about the making of “Dollars and dentists,” a joint project of PBS Frontline and the Center for Public Integrity that reveals the consequences of a broken dental care system and investigates how a new breed of corporate dental chains are filling the gaps. Frontline Producer Jill Rosenbaum shares how the investigation got started, where they found data, who the key sources were and some ideas of stories that are ripe for coverage.
