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Health journalism
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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…
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Newly named NYT editor spoke to AHCJ about health coverage
Jill Abramson, who will become executive editor of The New York Times in September, welcomed health journalists to AHCJ’s 2007…
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Medical device investigation unearths conflicts, regulatory issues
The latest investigation from the Chicago Tribune’s Jason Grotto and Deborah L. Shelton focuses on a single medical device, yet…
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Critically evaluate, report on cell phone/cancer link
Courtesy of the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s press release and the storm of advance coverage it has spawned,…
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Horgan finds reasons to be optimistic about science writing
In yet another sign of the much-discussed science writing renaissance which may or may not be upon us, Scientific American‘s…
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South African academic: Conflict of interest went unnoticed in obesity stories
In a column for South Africa’s The Media magazine, Harry Dugmore, MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communication at the…