General Questions
My Profile and Uploading Content
The Fellowships
Community
General Questions
What is ReportingonHealth?
ReportingonHealth is a project of the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program. It is funded by a generous grant by The California Endowment, and the program is housed at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. ReportingonHealth offers extensive reporting resources, blogs and other content, as well as social networking, for journalists and new media professionals covering health issues.
How do I contact the ReportingonHealth staff?
You can reach program staff by calling (626) 457-4296 during normal business hours, or by emailing editor [at] reportingonhealth [dot] org.
Our mailing address and physical location is:
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication
The Alhambra
1000 South Fremont Avenue
Building A-0, 2nd floor
Alhambra, CA 91803
How do I become a member?
Click here. Fill out the required fields marked with an asterisk. It's fast, easy and free!
A Journalism Membership is free and open to journalists, bloggers, journalism or communication students and professors, online medical writers, and special advisers. Members can promote their work in attractive online profiles, showcase their stories, launch a blog, participate in forums on the craft, and gain access to valuable reporting tools. Information you provide on your profile will only be viewable to members of the site. Since we are a non-profit journalism-based organization, we will not share your information with outside third parties or vendors. Please see the site's privacy policy for more information. Click here to subscribe to our e-mail newsletters, or you can find the "Sign-up for E-mail Newsletters" link at the top of the right sidebar. The general interest group is what you want to sign up for. My Profile and Uploading Content
How do I upload my stories to my profile? Before uploading a story to your profile, you need to make sure to obtain the proper rights. If you own the story and would like to display it on our site, we welcome you to do so. If your news organization owns the story, please obtain permission to upload it to our site, and contact our staff to get a permissions form, so we have that on file. When you are logged into the site, click on "My Profile," a link on the top right of the navigation bar. The fields with red asterisks are required fields. If your story has a sidebar, you can enter that information into the sidebar section of the form. It allows for one photo. If you are a regular member of the site, in the field marked "Project Type," select "Story." If you are a former or current fellow to our program, you can enter your name in the Fellow field using the drop-down menu-- this will display your project in the fellowship story showcase. Also, in the field marked "Project Type," select "Fellowship Story." You can copy and paste the text from your story into the text boxes, and use the WYSIWYG editor to format it. You are able to bold, underline, and italicize, as well as include hyperlinks, and insert photos, among a range of other formatting options available. If your story requires a lot of formatting, under "Input format," select the radio button marked "Full HTML." This will give you the widest range of options and control over the look and feel of your story. If you are a broadcaster, you can upload MP3 audio files and/or video files with .wmv, .flv, .rmv extensions at the bottom of the form. There are two sections, "Audio" and "Video" that allow you to upload the files and associated photos. You are not required to upload text, although, providing a description about what your project is about may be helpful to members of the site who browse through. When you are done uploading and filling out the form, be sure to select a button regarding rights to the story before clicking "Submit."
If you a working professional journalist who regularly produces or writes for a news outlet, you are eligible to apply for our program. More specific criteria for each of our fellowship programs are outlined in the Fellowship section of our site. For application materials, check out the How to Apply page.
Join a forum
We welcome your ideas and suggestions for the site at our feedback page, or email editor [at] reportingonhealth [dot] org.
Who can become a member?
A Public Membership is available to non-journalists. It allows you to create your own online profile, comment on our blogs, create your own blog and comment in our feedback sections.
How do I ensure my personal information is secure?
How do I sign up for e-mail newsletters?
The Fellowships
How do I apply for a fellowship program?
How do I register for a special event?
If you're interested in attending one of our special events, click on the event and fill out the RSVP form at the bottom of the page. Name, e-mail address and number of attendees are required fields to sign up.
How do I upload my fellowship project to the fellowship story showcase? (Fellows only.)
If you are a former or current fellow in the program, you have the option of uploading a fellowship project to your profile. Click on the My Profile link in the top right corner of the navigation bar, and in the View tab, click on Add Fellowship Project. Fill out the form, and copy and paste the text from your project into the space designated "Article." If you have a sidebar for your project, photos, videos or audio, you have the option of uploading those as well. Important note, it is mandatory that appropriate permissions be obtained before uploading your project to the site.
Community
In the forums section of our Website, select the forum topic that you're interested in learning about. There is a link that says "Subscribe to this forum" near the title. It will ask you how often you would like your updates and comments, then click on the Subscribe button.
Lead a forum / Create a forum topic
In order to be a forum leader or to create a forum topic, you need to be an approved journalist or blogger.
How do you select your contributors?
Our editors assign essays about noteworthy topics in health journalism to leading journalists and scientific and policy experts with deep expertise in their fields.
Can I write for your site?
Members can set up a blog on their member profiles. We also commission paid essays on critical topics in health care and health journalism. After reading the content on ReportingonHealth, feel free to send us your ideas for essays or resource guides by going to our feedback page. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts.
I'd like to see information about a certain topic on your site. Who can I contact?
How can I create or update my Community Profile?
Logging in should take you straight to your profile. If not, go to the Community page, find your name (the search field is case sensitive), and click on it. Then just fill in the blanks, upload a photo and make sure to save your updates. The save button is located in the bottom right hand section of the page, under the "Extra Info" section. We'll have more information on completing your profile and how to get the most from the site's features very soon!
What if I have technical problems with the site?
Please let us know right away by going to our feedback page.