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By Jarre Fees The Poynter Institute will use a recent $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its Sense-Making program and other initiatives that focus on how the public consumes information, how journalists collect and disseminate news and how…
By Debra Kaufman At Apple’s 2009 worldwide developer’s conference, Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan demonstrated an app that lets diabetics upload glucose readings from their blood glucose monitors to their iPhone, send the readings and a message about how they’re…
By Hillary Atkin For the first time, the Internet has squeaked past television as the most essential medium in the lives of Americans. That finding was part of Arbitron Inc. and Edison Research’s recently released “The Infinite Dial 2010: Digital…
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News’ chief medical editor since September 2006, attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and did residencies in pediatrics as well as ear, nose and throat surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Her TV career…
By Debra Kaufman It’s impossible to talk about the state of health care journalism in the U.S. today without noticing the elephant — and the donkey — in the room: the debate over health care reform that dominated headlines, sound…
By Elizabeth Jensen Attendees at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ 2010 convention in Chicago may be coming to do the usual rounds of catching up with far-flung friends and making business contacts, but first they have to work. Even…