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Health journalism
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Think about the words you use when covering suicide #ahcj14
Reporters need to think carefully about the language they use when reporting on suicide, a panel of experts urged during…
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Caution in order when tackling newly released Medicare data
AHCJ hosted a webcast about the CMS data, featuring several CMS officials and Charles Ornstein, a senior reporter at ProPublica and…
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Using data from exchanges, journalists report on the true cost of health insurance
When the federal and state exchanges opened for business on Oct. 1, 2013, health care journalists found a trove of…
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For freelancers, ‘Contracts 101’ was important session at #ahcj14
Almost every freelancer has a horror story or two about contract negotiations gone awry. To help freelancers avoid the most…
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New models bridge the gap in health care news #ahcj14
Necessity has become the mother of innovative business models for local news. It’s no secret that vanishing news outlets and…
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Journalists high on health journalism for AHCJ’s annual conference #ahcj14
Journalists from all corners of the U.S. and some other countries gathered in the Mile-High City last week to learn…
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Offit challenges reporters to avoid false balance #ahcj14
Paul Offit, M.D., has had it with the journalistic canard of false balance as a reflexive stand-in for objectivity –…
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Bugs in the body: When bacteria can be healthy #ahcj14
With falling costs of genetic screening, research into the body’s microbial community has grown tremendously, offering new insights into what…
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What do editors want from freelancers? #ahcj14
Editors from four newspapers, magazines and web platforms offered great tips on how to conceive, pitch and write a freelance…
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Sullivan shares experiences with racism, the early days of AIDS and serving under George H.W. Bush #ahcj14
Louis Sullivan, M.D., recounted his decades of service to medicine to attendees of Health Journalism 2014 on Thursday at the…