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Journalists explain how freelancers can add audio, video to boost pitches – and income #AHCJ16
Seeing Spike Lee’s 2006 documentary about how Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans was transformative for independent journalist Andrea King Collier.…
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Panelists agree HIPAA privacy rule is outdated #AHCJ16
Charles Ornstein, a senior reporter at ProPublica, kicked off a Health Journalism 2016 session about the federal government’s health privacy…
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Panel offers ideas on uncovering true costs of health care at #AHCJ16
For those of us covering health insurance, one of the best sessions at Health Journalism 2016 addressed the challenging issue…
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Watch surgeon general’s speech at Health Journalism 2016 #AHCJ16
United States Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., (@Surgeon_General) spoke to attendees of Health Journalism 2016 and discussed how his…
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Health officials talk about cities in crisis, disparities in health #AHCJ16
Health Journalism 2016 kicked off a powerful lineup of panels with a roundtable on covering the health angles of cities…
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Dental study backs up surgeon general’s concerns about excessive opioid use #AHCJ16
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has launched a campaign to address an epidemic of opioid addiction that holds two million…
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Flaws, limits and conflicts: Tips to find study pitfalls #AHCJ16
At Health Journalism 2016 in Cleveland, Andrew M. Seaman and Hilda Bastian discussed shortcuts for weighing the likelihood a study’s…
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Telemedicine: New ways to deliver care and how to report on it #AHCJ16
At Health Journalism 2016 on Friday, David Pittman, an ehealth reporter for Politico, had some good advice for reporters covering telemedicine:…
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Choices earlier in life are key to aging well, retaining functional ability #AHCJ16
Saturday’s “Aging well” panel at Health Journalism 2016 featured what might well be a first for the Association of Health…
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Hungry for weight loss: Challenges and hope in the battle against obesity #AHCJ16
As a registered dietitian who has studied obesity prevention and treatment for more than three decades, I was intrigued by…