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The Power of the Public Insight Network: A Do-It-Yourself Way to Crowdsource

How can mainstream media better cover communities, particularly those that don't often have a voice? Increasingly, public radio reporters are using the Public Insight Network, a mashup of Rolodex and crowdsourcing machine.

Gold Bricks: Five Reporting Tips from the Los Angeles Times' Prison Doctor Investigation

Why are state medical boards disciplining doctors by sending them to work in prisons? Why are some prison doctors with troubled histories kept away from patients - yet still collect their salaries? Learn how to report on these issues in your community.

What medical devices should the FDA approve?

Health apps, birth control, hunger stikes and mental health in today's Daily Briefing.

From China to California

Today's Daily Briefing travels to Chinese mental institutions, California prisons, and all over the map with bogus trend stories.

Reporting on Prison Health Care: A Live Internet Radio Conversation with KPCC's Julie Small

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Prison Health Care: Live Conversation with Julie Small
Thursday, August 26

The show aired at 11 AM PST and is now archived below.

A boneheaded hospital lawsuit, health policy comics, and a "test" for health journalists: The ReportingonHealth Daily Briefing

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Prison Health: In our online chat TODAY at 11 a.m. PST., get tips on covering prison health from KPCC’s Julie Small, whose “Prison Affliction” investigation has been airing this week.

An acupuncture smackdown, a prison health probe and an ode to colorectal surgeons: The ReportingonHealth Daily Briefing

Here's what we're reading and listening to today:

Prison Health: KPCC‘s Julie Small talks about how she reported her “Prison Affliction” series airing this week. Please join us for ReportingonHealth’s online chat with Julie Thursday at 11 a.m. PST.

Q&A with KPCC's Julie Small: Investigating Prison Health Care

Prison health care in California costs about $2.5 billion per year, but the quality of that care has been so abysmal over the years that a federal judge in 2002 forced California to give up control of its prison health services to a federal receiver. Eight years later, few journalists have bothered to follow up on this once headline-grabbing topic. The prison health story, like so many other complex policy topics, became a casualty of the state capitol press corps’ thinning ranks.

Inspections of prison medical facilities reveal low adherence to key policies

The state Inspector General’s Office will issue a report on the quality of prison medical care in California by the end of the year. It’ll include a summary of inspections at 11 state prisons. The report will help a federal judge determine when to return control of prison medical care to the state. KPCC’s Julie Small has looked over some of the preliminary scores.

Broadcast Fellows Projects of 2009

From health disparities to depression, “food deserts” to prison medical care, the broadcast projects of our recent California Endowment Health Journalism Fellows covered a wide variety of critical health issues. Here’s a sampling of their work:

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