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- internalmedicinenews.com/views/blognosis-the-internal-medicine-news-blog/blog/optimism-about-un-noncommunicable-disease-summit/12e7e3c1ba.html
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Provide names of other journalists involved.
Kathryn DeMott, editor
List date(s) this work was published or aired.
Endemic, March 14th Tobacco, April 5th Optimism, September 14th Summit, September 28th
Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
These four stories chronicle the events leading up to, and including, the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Disease.
Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
Documents included articles from The Lancet.
Explain types of human sources used.
Jean Claude Mbanya and Ann Keeling, of the International Diabetes Federation are the leaders of the NCD movement who served as my primary sources. Other sources included speakers at the Harvard “Bottom Billion” meeting, covered in the first article.
Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
Not to my knowledge.
Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
This was a self-initiated beat. I first learned about the NCD movement through the diabetes community in 2009. I began blogging about it in October of that year. At the time, I wasn’t aware of any other journalists covering the issue. Internal Medicine News doesn’t typically run stories about international health, but my editors recognized the importance of this topic to physicians worldwide and allowed me to cover both the Harvard meeting and the UN meeting at Elsevier’s expense. I advise journalists to follow stories that aren’t being told, even if the subject doesn’t quite fit the mold of their media outlets.