Coventry University

Thursday, June 23

Facilitator: Sue Lister, senior lecturer health management, Coventry University

9 a.m.

Coffee and registration

10 a.m.

Welcome & opening remarks

• John Lister, senior lecturer, health journalism, Coventry University; conference organizer

10:25 a.m.

Raising standards in health journalism

• Afrodite Veloudaki, director, Health Reporter Training project (HeaRT)

• Charles Ornstein, senior reporter, ProPublica; president, Association of Health Care Journalists

• John Illman, immediate past president, Medical Journalists Association

11.25 a.m.

Discussion

11.45 a.m.

Plenary workshop 1: Case studies

• News in the making: Features and changes in health coverage in Portugal
  Rita Araújo, Communication and Society Research Center, University of Minho

• Representation of 'health' in Estonian daily news flow and how this affects health journalism education
  Halliki Harro-Loit
  Hans Orru, HeaRT project, University of Tartu
  

• The importance of specialization in health for journalists: The Spanish case
  Esther Paniagua, international relations coordinator, Spanish National Association of Health Informers
  

12:30 p.m.

Discussion

12:45 p.m.

Lunch

2 p.m.

Understanding how NICE works globally

• Françoise Cluzeau, senior adviser, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

2:35 p.m.

Critical health reporting

• Pressing for accuracy, balance and completeness in health and medical journalism
  Gary Schwitzer, publisher, HealthNewsReview.org

• This talk is not embargoed: How scientific journals and societies use embargoes to manipulate the flow of scientific information
  Ivan Oransky, M.D., executive editor Reuters Health

3:25 p.m.

Tea Break

3:50 p.m.

Discussion groups on critical health reporting

4:40 p.m.

Parallel sessions: The impact of media images

• Urban myths of childbearing
  Helen Bottom, senior lecturer, midwifery, Anglia University

• Issues in care of the elderly
  Richenda Power, independent journalist

• How the media depict dominant representations of Greek society on the problem of child abuse and neglect
  Anna Salvanou, Institute of Child Health, Department of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Athens

5:30 p.m.

Close

7:30 p.m.

Conference dinner at AQUA

Friday June 24

9 a.m.

Coffee

9:30 a.m.

Reporting health reforms

• The attack on Medicare
  Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor, Columbia Journalism Review

• New media and the Obama reforms
  Shelly Stevenson, associate lecturer in broadcast journalism, Coventry University

• The future of the Italian health care system
  Gianluca Brutomesco, independent journalist

• Getting a complex message across
  Ian Parker, political and communications adviser to John Healey MP (Labour), shadow health secretary, Westminster

• Media coverage of England's health reforms
  John Lister, Coventry University

11 a.m.

Discussion

11:15 a.m.

Short tea break

11:30 a.m.

Plenary workshop 2: Case studies

• Swine flu and Twitter: What important web resources were popular on Twitter at the height of the pandemic?
  Connie St. Louis, science journalism program director, City University, London

• Urinary tract infections in the elderly: Prevention and treatment of this commonest infection. Creams or cranberries?
  Angela Kilmartin, health journalist

• Vitamin D and sunshine: A campaign challenging health dogma
  Oliver Gillie, independent journalist

Discussion

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m.

Plenary workshops 3

• Investigative health journalism
  Charles Ornstein, senior reporter, ProPublica; president, Association of Health Care Journalists

• Best practices in blogging and social media
  Ivan Oransky, M.D., executive editor Reuters Health; blogger, Embargo Watch and Retraction Watch

2:10 p.m.

Discussion

2:40 p.m.

Staffing levels and professional standards in journalism
Donnacha De Long, president, National Union of Journalists

3 p.m.

Closing remarks
from AHCJ, MJA, HeaRT and Coventry University

3:30 p.m.

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