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The bad economy has been a double whammy for journalists: Not only have the funds in their 401(k)s disappeared, but so have the media outlets they work for. At first, health care journalists seemed impervious to the axes falling in media organizations. “With regard to layoffs, health care journalism...
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“I think our members are scared. I think journalists everywhere are scared,” said Trudy Lieberman, president of the Association of Health Care Journalists’ board of directors, speaking candidly about the current economic straits facing news pros on the health beat. As AHCJ members prepare to gather for...
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Veteran journalist Len Bruzzese, executive director of the Association of Health Care Journalism and its Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, has been at the organization’s helm since 2005. An associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, he worked with the school’s dean, R. Dean...
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On March 23, the Wall Street Journal’s Scott A. Hensley, editor of the well-regarded WSJ Health Blog, reported that he was leaving the paper and the blog. The veteran health care reporter had been at the Journal since 2000, and switched to editing the WSJ Health Care Blog when it launched in March 2007...
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Every year since 2004, the Association of Health Care Journalists has honored the best in health care reporting at its annual gathering. This year’s first-place winner in the television category was a segment of “Healthline Presents” on Retirement Living TV (RLTV). “Polio Revisited” examined the highly...
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At Health Journalism 2009 in Seattle this week, the Association of Health Care Journalists will be presenting awards in 11 categories honoring the best in health care reporting. Al Jazeera English Television received the second-place prize in the television category for “Health Care USA,” a beautifully...
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Awards will be presented at a luncheon April 18 at Health Journalism 2009. TV First place: David Wasser, Alissa Collins Latenser and Don Kaiser, Retirement Living TV, “Healthline Presents: Polio Revisited” Second place: Hanaan Sarhan, Mat Skene and Avi Lewis, Al Jazeera English Television, “Healthcare...
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Perhaps the most controversial award-winning health report honored by the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2009 is “Talking About the End,” produced by PBS’ “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,” which took third place in the television category. In “Talking About the End,” “NewsHour” health unit correspondent...
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The Center for Public Integrity has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists for the in-depth online report “Perils of the New Pesticide,” winning first place in the online category. To hear Mike Pell, data analyst and staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, talk about how...
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The popular conception of medically underserved areas is a remote rural locale—the hollows of Appalachia or South Dakota’s plains, say—where residents must travel many miles to be seen by a physician or wait for the medical practitioners to come to them via traveling clinic. There are plenty of those...
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For Diane Sawyer’s “20/20” report “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains,” ABC News producers and camera crews spent nearly two years in central Appalachia looking at how children in particular are coping with adult-created problems, from their parents’ drug addictions to unemployment. The hourlong...
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Three years ago, CBS Evening News named Jon LaPook, M.D., its medical correspondent, reporting on health care and medical news alongside anchor Katie Couric each week. In addition to continuing his medical practice in New York City as a board-certified gastroenterologist and attending physician at New...
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What started out as a medical “miracle” story ended up among the biggest of the year’s news “gets.” In early February, “Dateline NBC” and “Today” show co-anchor Ann Curry landed an exclusive interview with Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets whose birth less than two weeks earlier had made worldwide...