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How to update your AHCJ Freelance Directory profile
AHCJ’s Freelance Directory allows editors to search for health journalists who could be a good fit for their projects.
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Why cutting sign-up days and navigator funds undermines ACA gains
Learn how shortening the open sign-up period and cutting funding for health benefit navigators could limit enrollment in the Affordable…
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Reporter exposes network of AI-generated ‘local’ newsletters
Here’s how Nieman Lab reporter Andrew Deck sleuthed out the backstory of a network of AI-generated newsletters.
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What’s at stake for older adults amid proposed Medicaid cuts
If Congress slashes $880 billion from the proposed federal budget, it will mean significant Medicaid cuts.
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Impossible odds persist for many on organ transplant waitlist
Getting an organ transplant is a game of chance where your odds depend on the color of your skin, the…
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More hospitals will get dangerously overcrowded, researchers project
Without changes in the hospitalization rate or staff bed supply, the national hospital occupancy rate will climb to 85% by…
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Study detects frequent gunshots near children walking to school
Kids walking to and from school often hear gunshots in one Chicago neighborhood, recent research from Ohio State University revealed.
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From nonfiction to fiction: How a health care reporter wrote and sold her first novel
Journalist Amanda Eisenberg, whose first novel comes out in April, says journalists already have many skills that translate to fiction.
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Reporters uncover overlooked red flags after a Tennessee school shooting
In the weeks following a deadly Nashville, Tenn., school shooting, reporters found several warning signs overlooked by authorities.
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Tracking the Trump Administration’s effects on science and health care
It’s imperative that journalists communicate the local, tangible effects of Trump’s federal government disruptions to their readers.
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