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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Chad Hurley, co-founder and chief executive officer of YouTube, sees the growing use of Wi-Fi equipped devices as a great thing for YouTube, as the video site giant looks to be seen on the same level as television, the Telegraph…