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By Dinah Eng For most journalists, reporting the news means telling stories with accuracy and objectivity, but when you’re in the middle of a natural disaster, keeping your distance from the unfolding event isn’t easy. Media coverage of the January…
NewsPro, in association with the National Association of Medical Communicators, recently polled NAMC members about their attitudes toward the professional demands made on doctor-journalists, and the possibility of ethical conflicts when they are called upon to do both jobs at once….
By Dinah Eng As the spotlight on health care reform has intensified, health reporters have been challenged to explain what policy changes mean to the consumer, especially since political and business reporters seem to have taken the lead on the…
By Jarre Fees Health officials nationwide went on alert in late March 2009 after a unique flu virus was reported in central Mexico. By early April, the 2009 H1N1 virus had been reported in Texas and California; within weeks it…
Physicians are playing an increasingly important role in television news at both the local and national levels, and experienced particularly high visibility this year during coverage of the aftermath of the earthquakwe in Haiti. NewsPro correspondent Elizabeth Jensen profiles some…
By Elizabeth Jensen The first-place winners of this year’s Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism exposed questions surrounding the safety of generic drugs, documented how industry distorted the science surrounding the plastics compound BPA and uncovered a pattern of…
By Allison J. Waldman Richard Heene and his 6-year-old son, “Balloon Boy” Falcon, weren’t the only Colorado father and son to gain national attention from a news story in 2009. Bernie Lange, anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, and his…
By Tom Petner There’s good news and bad news to report in the homogenization of local TV news. The good news is who’s getting hired these days in the reporting ranks. And the bad news — well, it’s who’s getting…
Actor Kelsey Grammer is one of the backers of a new on-demand and online network that will be ” ‘pro-America,’ ‘pro-business [and] pro-military sensibilities’ that will ultimately invite conversation and influence ‘the national conversation,’ ” according to the New York Daily News….