Health Beat
Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care Journalism
Ad
-
Freelance: Coolest tools to find a story, research it, write it and share it
This tip sheet features freelance reporting tools for productivity, writing, editing, and research. These tools were the focus of a…
-
•
Journalists high on health journalism for AHCJ’s annual conference #ahcj14
Journalists from all corners of the U.S. and some other countries gathered in the Mile-High City last week to learn…
-
Storytelling Tips, Shooting Solo and Finding the Human Element
Joy Robertson of The Food Channel offers some tips for shooting great video solo and on a deadline.
-
Mile-High City draws crowd for Health Journalism 2014
AHCJ’s first Mountain States conference – Health Journalism 2014 – brought journalists from across the United States and beyond to…
-
•
Offit challenges reporters to avoid false balance #ahcj14
Paul Offit, M.D., has had it with the journalistic canard of false balance as a reflexive stand-in for objectivity –…
-
•
Simulating an emergency room response #ahcj14
Thursday’s field trip to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus included a visit to the School of Medicine’s health…
-
Oral health disparities persist despite advances in prevention #ahcj14
By Kelsey Ryan In 2007, a 12-year-old Maryland boy named Deamonte Driver died from a tooth infection that spread to…
-
•
Prescribing data and the side effects of assumptions #ahcj14
Reporters curious about the financial relationship between physicians and pharmaceutical companies can use publicly available data as a starting point…
-
•
Ingredients that make an athlete elite might surprise you #ahcj14
Barry Bonds may be the best in history at hitting a baseball* (I’ll put an asterisk on that for the…
-
•
Bugs in the body: When bacteria can be healthy #ahcj14
With falling costs of genetic screening, research into the body’s microbial community has grown tremendously, offering new insights into what…
Featured Resources
Work the Health Beat.
Get exclusive news and training opportunities from AHCJ in your inbox once a week.