CBS Sports, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Reach 14-Year Agreement for Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Agreement Includes Television, Internet, Wireless and Marketing Rights Through 2024 INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA today announced a new 14-year…
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…
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…