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Talking Cancer: More Tips from the International Workshop for Scientific Journalism

Learn the latest tips for covering cancer — including important difference in types of screening — from an international journalism conference.

Thanksgiving 2012: What Are You Thankful For? (Professionally Speaking)

We asked health journalists of all stripes to tell us what they're thankful for today. What are you thankful for?

Putting Valley Fever on the Front Burner

Our Reporting on Health Collaborative found that valley fever causes more deaths than Hantavirus, hepatitis A, whooping cough and salmonella poisoning combined, yet all of these conditions are more widely known.

The House M.D. Finale: Goodnight, House

The journalist who wrote two books about the medicine in House, M.D. weighs in on the popular television show's finale.

Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women's Mags

How good health and science journalism gets mangled by women's magazines: an explanation by a freelance journalist who's been there.

New FCC Journalism Report Paints Bleak Picture of Health Coverage

The long-awaited Federal Communications Commission report on American journalism, Information Needs of Communities, paints a poignant picture of the decline of health journalism at the nation’s newspapers.

15 Tips for Smart Reporting on Drug Addiction and Treatment

Do you want to better report on drug addiction and treatment? Avoid having Slate’s Jack Shafer feature your work in his Stupid Drug Story of the Week feature? Then follow these 15 tips from veteran journalist Maia Szalavitz.

A British View of the US Health Reform and US Health Journalism

As a Brit looking back on the AHCJ conference which ended just a week ago, I have to say that the overwhelming impression I took away was that Americans appear to love their health insurance companies more than almost anything else, and that US health journalists appear to be less critical and analytical in approaching health reform and health policy than when they report on new drugs and treatments.

Journalism stars come out for AHCJ Health Journalism 2011 conference in Philadelphia

It makes for a sad spring when I can’t attend the annual Association of Health Care Journalists conference.

Youth Journalism Resources

Young people represent the next generation of our reporters. Not only will early training produce a crop of talented journalists, it gives youth a platform to voice how issues directly affect them — all while gaining insight into the topics they research and report. Youth media may appear in the form of school publications, classroom-produced projects, partnerships between youth and media organizations or independent, citywide media outlets. Here are some examples of youth-produced media and teacher resources to get you started:

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