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Health journalism
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Presidents of AHCJ, SPJ call for more openness from Obama administration
The presidents of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists published an op-ed in The…
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Sponsored segments, hospital partnerships creep into news outlets
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blythe Bernhard takes a look at the fruits of the slow, steady advances hospitals and…
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Reporter shares lessons from writing first-person medical stories
Late last year, the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor ran a series of stories in which reporter Meg Heckman used her…
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Journalist makes case against sanitizing disaster coverage
At a time when the ethics of anecdotal and emotion-heavy disaster coverage have come into question, as they tend to…
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Affordable Care Act reaches one-year mark
The Affordable Care Act became law one year ago today. The biggest provisions – the state-based exchanges and the subsidies…
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Award winners tackled range of important medical, health issues
Investigations into shoddy oversight of adult care homes and low quality at dialysis centers – along with moving portrayals of…
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Journalists must heed ethics in disaster coverage
A little more than a week after the historic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency in Japan, journalists are beginning to…
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Meeting the challenges of explaining Health Policy
Editor’s note: Today we introduce Joanne Kenen as AHCJ’s Health Policy topic leader. She will be writing blog posts, tip…
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Survey: Only half of federal agencies have better FOI procedures
A report from the Knight Open Government Survey found that, despite some progress, federal agencies are only halfway there when…
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‘Do No Harm’ team captures another award
AHCJ member Marshall Allen and Alex Richards have won the investigative reporting category in the 2010 Scripps Howard Awards for…