Training & Events

Network with fellow health care journalists and gain valuable insights you can use every day.

Calendar

  • PitchFest Prep Session

    Whether it’s your first or tenth time at PitchFest, please join this virtual session to review the dos and don’ts…
  • Lunch and Learn: What’s in your contract?

    At April’s Lunch and Learn, we’ll talk about freelance contracts; understanding terms, negotiating terms and new issues for the current…
  • Lunch and Learn: Let’s talk about money

    Let’s talk about money. As in…how are you making it? Do you balance journalism with content writing—and if so, how do…
  • Reporting on GLP-1s and eating disorders

    In partnership with Equip, AHCJ New York invites you to an intimate panel discussion featuring Equip co-founder and clinical psychologist Erin Parks, Bea…
  • Fiction writing 101 (postponed from July)

    Join journalist Anna Medaris, head of the Association of Health Care Journalist’s New York chapter, in conversation with journalist-turned-novelist Amanda Eisenberg…
  • Lunch and Learn: AI and you

    We’ll share how we’re using AI in research, drafts, headlines—even to enhance pitches or check for similar articles on the…
  • Virtual PitchFest

    AHCJ’s popular Virtual PitchFest is back — giving independent journalists the chance to pitch directly to editors at top health…
  • Virtual freelance happy hour

    Freelancers are invited to a casual virtual happy hour — come as you are, bring a drink, and enjoy conversation…

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