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Health journalism
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AHCJ members tackle job changes, book publishing and earn awards
Health journalists have been busy, with a number of job changes, awards and new books out. Here’s the latest news…
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Groups push for transparency in Joint Commission’s hospital accreditation surveys
The Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Jim Warren reports that about 50 advocacy groups, including the Consumers Union and Mothers against Medical Error,…
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Graham to lead AHCJ’s resources on aging
Veteran health care journalist Judith Graham will be AHCJ’s topic leader in building new resources for journalists covering aging. Graham,…
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Pharma discloses free meals, ProPublica expands database
In his latest report, ProPublica senior reporter and AHCJ board president Charles Ornstein explains exactly how, since its founding last…
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Find health data at Childstats.gov, a clearinghouse for kid numbers
Time to add another link to your “federal data clearinghouses” folder, if you haven’t already. Childstats.gov, published by the Federal…
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Health journalists poised for strong showing at 2011 ONA Awards
The 2011 finalists for the Online Journalism Awards were announced this week, and regular readers won’t be surprised to hear…
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Dallas hospital CEO claims reporters have a vendetta
The chief executive officer of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital claims a “vendetta” held by the Dallas Morning News‘ investigative team is…
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Reporter finds the story behind food code violations
All the time that The Muskegon Chronicle‘s Brian McVicar has been spending with his county health department’s inspection records has…
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Media must understand, explain privatization of health services
One of the points that stood out for me at the first European conference on health journalism was from conference…
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Paper seeks redacted details from Vt. medical board
Burlington Free Press reporter Adam Silverman writes that his newspaper is seeking the release of certain details redacted from a…