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research
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EurekAlert! is back, but do you really need it?
When the EurekAlert! press release service was taken down on Sept. 13 after being hacked, there was a discussion about how…
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How the media reports mass shootings may influence future ones
As the U.S. struggles to process and grieve yet another mass shooting — this one unique in targeting a minority…
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Satirist John Oliver imparts valuable advice for health journalists
If satire is a lesson, as novelist Vladimir Nabokov allegedly said, then John Oliver is among its best teachers —…
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Flaws, limits and conflicts: Tips to find study pitfalls #AHCJ16
At Health Journalism 2016 in Cleveland, Andrew M. Seaman and Hilda Bastian discussed shortcuts for weighing the likelihood a study’s…
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Tips on medical research reporting 101 kicks off #AHCJ16 in Cleveland
Almost since the inception of health journalism, reporting on medical research has been one of the mainstays of the job.…
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Reporter explains how he balanced research, anecdotes in pesticide piece
One of the trickiest balances a health reporter must strike is the one between anecdotes and evidence. The former is…
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Assessing a journal’s quality can help assess a study’s newsworthiness
Perhaps you stumble onto an intriguing study that you haven’t seen covered and want to report on it. Or you…
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Using editorials, letters to help make sense of contradictory data
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a bombshell alcohol recommendation to women on Feb. 2 that led to…
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Have you earned your PubMed black belt?
It’s just about impossible to report on medical research without becoming intimately familiar with PubMed. But just because a reporter…
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Retraction Watch offers some transparency about transparency
In the years since its inception, Retraction Watch has documented hundreds of troubled scientific papers that were eventually retracted, as…