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Health journalism
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AHCJ gets contact list of senior HHS media officials
AHCJ now has an up-to-date list of the senior media officials at each division of the U.S. Department of Health…
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Failing Fla. transplant program misled media, employees, patients
Writing in the The Florida Times-Union, reporter Jeremy Cox used public records requests to find that a kidney transplant program…
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New jobs and honors for AHCJ members
Here’s the latest about AHCJ members, from the Spring 2011 issue of HealthBeat. If you have news please let us…
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AHCJ makes changes to membership rules
The board of the Association of Health Care Journalists has amended the organization’s membership guidelines, completing a process first begun…
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Health journalism bridges climate change, daily news cycle
Science journalists have struggled to reconcile the undeniable long-term relevance of climate change reporting with the lack of day-to-day immediacy…
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FCC report on journalism reveals failures, unique potential of the health beat
An FCC working group led by Steven Waldman (formerly of U.S. News & World Report and Beliefnet.com, among other things)…
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FDA creates embargo policy in response to reporter concerns
The Food and Drug Administration has adopted a policy on embargoes that permits reporters to share embargoed information with outside…
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Study offers context for reporting on health insurance exchanges
The first tip sheet I wrote about covering Health Policy was pegged to the one-year mark of the Affordable Care…
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Duluth duo investigates disciplined doctor
The latest crop of disciplined doctors stories, spearheaded by the work of ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, has focused…
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Montana student documents frontier hospital
Every year, as part of the Montana Town Project, University of Montana School of Journalism students pick one little rural…