Tips for interviewing people with disabilities: Covering medical studies often means interviewing people who live with conditions discussed in a study. If you’ll be meeting in person with someone who has a disability, the interview will go more smoothly and productively if you both feel comfortable. This tip sheet from the National Center on Disability and Journalism offers tips on what reporters should do or consider before and during the interview. Although the tips focus on in-person interviews, many of the suggestions could apply to phone interviews as well.
Diversity Style Guide
From the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University; this guide includes hundreds of terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography. amalgamates information from more than 20 different style guides, journalism organizations and resources.
Living Lonely
Lois M. Collins examines the health effects of loneliness on the elderly in this three-part series for the Deseret News. Collins was supported by a 2013 National Health Journalism Fellowship.
The Wealth Paradox
The Globe and Mail’s impressive series of articles, videos and info-graphics explores how Canada’s increasing wealth gap is reshaping society and putting future generations at a disadvantage. Health reporter André Picard’s piece, Wealth begets health: Why universal medical care only goes so far, digs into the health impact of income inequality despite Canada’s longstanding provision of medical care to all.
In Hidalgo County, too much of too little
Told in a riveting narrative style, The Washington Post explores how inequality and a “food-stamp diet” is wrecking the health of many people in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. Exemplary also for its use of photography, video and data graphics.
Shortened Lives
A deeply reported, four-part series on the gap in health and life expectancies between rich and poor neighborhoods by Bay Area News Group reporters Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, with statistical analysis and mapping by epidemiologist Matt Beyers of the Alameda County Public Health Department. Read about how they reported the series.
Unnatural Causes – Is inequality making us sick?
A seven-part video documentary series exploring conditions contributing to racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health, broadcast by PBS in 2008.