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Health journalism
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Reporter crafts story about connections between poverty, illness
It didn’t sit right with Olga Khazan, an associate editor at The Atlantic, seeing so many people focus on individual…
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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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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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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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Sunshine Week: Committee advocates for access to information
This is Sunshine Week, a yearly celebration of open government. It’s held every year in the week that includes the…
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Tell AHCJ what topics, speakers should be at Health Journalism 2014 #ahcj14
Local and national planning committees are working on the program for AHCJ’s annual conference. Many of our conference sessions grow out…
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Dates, location of Health Journalism 2014 announced
Health Journalism 2014, the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, will take place in Denver next year,…
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Snapshots from #ahcj13 | Soting Chiang
Soting Chiang, independent journalist, Hong Kong: What brought you to the AHCJ conference? We don’t have such a kind of conference…
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Snapshots from #ahcj13 | Randi Belisomo
Randi Belisomo, co-founder of Life Matters Media: What has most impressed you about the conference so far? I’ve been most…