About ReportingonHealth.org
ReportingonHealth is an online community for people passionate about fostering great health and medical coverage of our communities. ReportingonHealth provokes conversations about health journalism, blogging, and storytelling. It provides its members with a place to swap ideas, to showcase their work and to benefit from our reporting toolkits and tip-filled blogs.
A project of USC Annenberg's California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, ReportingonHealth is funded by a generous grant from The California Endowment.
To join the ReportingonHealth community, click here.
About Initiatives of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
At a time of dramatic change in the media landscape, our family of programs helps journalists and community storytellers innovate, investigate and illuminate health challenges in their communities, serving as a catalyst for change.
Fellowships
The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism founded The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program in 2005 to provide mid-career journalists with tools and training to report great stories on health. The program's competitive, all-expenses-paid seminars offer journalists a chance to step away from the newsroom to hone health reporting skills. In intimate workshops, field trips and discussions, fellows learn from the country's most respected health and medical experts, from top journalists in the field and from each other. Our seminars delve into current debates and dilemmas in health and health care. They also explore journalism on community health – how circumstances outside the doctor’s office such as violence, access to healthy food, poverty and pollution – contribute to well being.
For information on upcoming programs, click here or contact us at cahealth [at] usc [dot] edu
The fellowships are funded by a generous grant from The California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation.
Media Grant-Making
We award more than $50,000 annually for reporters participate in our National Health Journalism Fellowship to underwrite substantive explanatory and investigative journalism. These grants provide critical resources at a time of industry upheaval, bringing untold stories to light and changing communities.
The Reporting on Health Collaborative
In a new venture, Health Journalism Fellows and their media outlets team with us to tackle ambitious investigative projects coupled with creative engagement strategies. The first Collaborative project involved seven media outlets. It examines the toll of valley fever, a devastating and overlooked disease plaguing California’s Central Valley.
Boyle Heights Beat/El Pulso de Boyle Heights
In partnership with La Opinión and The California Endowment, we launched a quarterly bilingual print newspaper written by youth and an online news site, BoyleHeightsBeat.com, written by adult contributors from a Latino immigrant neighborhood of Los Angeles. The paper is distributed to 23,000 households whose members often feel disconnected from or unfairly depicted by mainstream news coverage. Boyle Heights Beat captures life as its residents experience it, giving voice to a marginalized community and building trust and connectedness.
Our Team
Michelle Levander, director, California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships and ReportingonHealth editor-in-chief
Jill Braden Balderas, contributing editor, ReportingonHealth
Maribel Hernandez, finance coordinator
Jessica Perez, Community Manager and Online Editor, Boyle Heights Beat
Anabell Romero, program coordinator
Martha Shirk, program consultant
