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Health journalism
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Sunshine Week may drop employee, fundraising
Clint Hendler reports in the Columbia Journalism Review that Sunshine Week’s only full-time coordinator will likely lose her job soon.…
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Why should reporters use Twitter? Read on …
By keeping track of area Twitter traffic, reporter Sarah Jane Tribble of the Cleveland Plain Dealer noticed that the Cleveland…
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Dartmouth Atlas: Powerful when used right
The Dartmouth Atlas contains detailed information on regional variations in health care spending and use and therefore has the potential…
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Recent reporting relied on incomplete releases
We all know that press releases are, by definition, designed to highlight positive news. And that’s being generous. But a pair of…
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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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The perils of access: ABC defends coverage
Richard Huff of the New York Daily News reports that Republican Party officials (and Matt Drudge) have likened ABC’s planned…
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Wrestling with the FDA recall e-mail avalanche
NPR’s April Fulton recently blogged about a phenomenon familiar to anyone with a subscription to the FDA’s recall e-mail list,…
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Schneider moves coverage to ColdTruth.com
Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer investigative reporter Andrew Schneider has moved from andrewschneiderinvestigates.com to the easier-to-type www.coldtruth.com . Schneider appears to have…
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Advocacy group releases mental health media guide
The second edition of a media guide for reporting on suicide and mental illness, prepared by Wisconsin United for Mental…
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Documentary exposes hospital billing practices
Do No Harm, a documentary that focuses on questionable billing practices at a nonprofit hospital in Georgia, premiered last month…