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Reporting on 1-800-GET-THIN clinic highlights regulatory issues
Michael Hiltzik, a business columnist at the Los Angeles Times, has spent more than two years writing about the company…
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HHS adjusts news media guidelines in response to AHCJ member concerns
The Department of Health and Human Services has revised its media guidelines, in response to some of the issues raised…
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Congratulate this year’s conference fellowship recipients #ahcj12
The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded more than 100 fellowships to help journalists attend its annual conference, Health…
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AHRQ details spending on health care
Among recent releases from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, its data on who’s spending what on health care…
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Reporters: Federal public affairs staffers block access to information
Reporters who cover federal government agencies say they face impediments to getting information to the public because of interference from…
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Primer prepares reporters for Supreme Court review of Health Policy
Back in 2009, when critics of what was then a Health Policy bill, not a Health Policy law, muttered about…
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Health analyses for any newsroom
Charles Ornstein, of ProPublica, and Jeff Porter, AHCJ’s special projects director, compiled this tip sheet to help reporters find and…
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Retirement center modifies dining policy following media coverage
Stories by The New York Times and The Virginian-Pilot about discriminatory dining room practices at a continuing care retirement center…
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Twitter for health journalists
Shuka Kalantari of KQED Public Radio introduces the basics of using Twitter and how journalists can use it to stay…
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Storify for health journalists
Marian Liu, community manager at Storify.com, introduces ways of telling stories using Storify, a useful tool for health care journalists.…
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