A journalist with more than two decades of experience covering health care will address the law and important related issues during a free public lecture titled “Obamacare & The Media: The Good, The Bad and The Challenge Ahead.”
Phil Galewitz, a Kaiser Health News reporter and AHCJ board member, will address how the media has performed in communicating the intricacies of the complicated and contentious law to the public in a free lecture. He also will discuss how journalists and public relations professionals cut through the ideological rhetoric that swirls around Obamacare, and how they can reach marginalized audiences.
Galewitz, who holds two degrees from Pennsylvania State University, covers Medicare, Medicaid and long-term health care for Kaiser Health News and has focused on health care journalism for more than two decades. He has been a reporter at The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post and the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. He also worked for The Daily Collegian as an undergraduate at Penn State.
The lecture, sponsored by the Ben Bronstein Lecture in Ethics and Public Relations, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 14, at the State Theatre in downtown State College, Pa.
The Bronstein Lecture was created by Bronstein, who earned his degree in journalism in 1961 and has been a longtime supporter of the University. He endowed the lecture to support ethics-related events as part of the core mission of the College of Communications.