In this webinar, two journalists and one expert will talk about positive rural health storytelling. The panelists will discuss examples of positive storytelling and share valuable resources, ideas and tools related to reporting on rural health. Bring your comments and questions.
Journalist Sarah DiGregorio, author of the forthcoming book, “Taking Care: The Revolutionary Story of Nursing,” and Kerry Dooley Young, AHCJ’s core topic leader on patient safety, will review the findings of major studies on how nurse staffing levels affect quality of care. This webinar will introduce journalists to major papers and reports on this issue and provide an update on efforts at the state and federal level to mandate nurse-patient ratios.
Journalists reporting on “long COVID” need to keep abreast of the latest research. In this media briefing from AAAS, three experts will review the research on symptoms of long COVID, risk factors for developing it and evolving treatment options. They will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the peer-reviewed research and what reporters need to keep in mind as they cover long COVID.
This webcast will examine global concerns regarding governmental repression of public health information related to the pandemic through use of criminal law and other means. Panelists will discuss the challenge of protecting freedom of expression and access to information during the pandemic, while addressing concerns regarding mis- and disinformation.
The CDC and infectious disease experts will present final flu vaccine coverage data from the 2021-2022 US flu season and will discuss vaccination against flu and pneumococcal disease, particularly among older adults and those with chronic health conditions who are at higher risk for related complications.
Understanding the fellowship Applications are now being accepted for the 2022-23 class of the National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships. (Meet last year’s…
Freelance contracts can be short, simple easy-to-understand agreements, multi-page documents full of legalese or anything in between. They can contain clauses that will cost you money, take away your future rights to the story, delay payment and saddle you with legal responsibilities best avoided.
In this webinar, former journalist and media lawyer Charles Glasser will answer your questions about why contracts are important, language to include and avoid, and how to negotiate the contract you want. Feel free to bring a contract and ask a specific question that can serve as an example for all attendees.
Ageism is pervasive in our society. And journalists can be as guilty as anyone else of perpetuating ageist tropes. But despite the barrage of negative messages that come at us at home, at work, and even at the supermarket, aging isn’t something sad or depressing that old people do. It’s how we move through life from birth to death; everyone is doing it; and more of us are doing more of it than ever before.
Journalists can find it difficult to cover persistent hunger and lack of access to convenient and affordable healthy foods because of food insecurity’s seeming invisibility. In this webinar, seasoned journalists will give tips for covering this important issue.
In the continuing fallout of the Dobbs decision, questions have been raised about how far law enforcement might reach into private health information via femtech, health care software and tech-enabled products designed to support women’s health. Can “anonymous” modes recently introduced by some companies truly keep users’ information private? And how could the upcoming November elections — 36 states are holding governor contests — impact the industry with abortion a top-of-mind issue for many people?
The Open Notebook, a nonprofit whose mission is to help science journalists succeed in their profession, runs a paid, part-time fellowship program for early career science journalists. This ten-month program is ideally suited for freelancers because there is a significant weekly time commitment. Fellows will work with mentors to plan, report and write five articles for publication at The Open Notebook. Expect several rounds of editing.
This webinar will explore the impact of food insecurity on health and factors reducing access to healthy and affordable food. Experts will discuss solutions such as community-based food system partnerships targeting vulnerable populations.
The Specialized Centers of Research Excellence on Sex Differences (SCORE) Annual Meeting keynote address is directed to researchers in the SCORE program and is open to the public; the rest of the meeting will be for SCORE investigators only. The SCORE program is the only NIH cooperative agreement program supporting disease-agnostic research on sex differences. Each center serves as a national resource for translational research to identify the role of biological sex differences in the health of women.
When journalist Robert Kolker first learned about the Galvin family through a colleague’s introduction to one of the family members, he didn’t know whether their story had all the elements needed to become a book until he began the reporting. The narrative that unfolded—a family in which six of the 10 sons developed schizophrenia—provided a compelling framework for exploring the history of schizophrenia research from its discovery through the present day.
The result, the highly acclaimed “Hidden Valley Road,” has continued to have an impact even two years after its 2020 publication, particularly in addressing the stigma associated with schizophrenia. Kolker will discuss how the book came about, his realization that it could be a book, how he found and wove medical research into his narrative, and what the book’s current impact has been for both the Galvin family and the understanding of schizophrenia more broadly.
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