Lessons From the Field
Learn more from award-winning journalists and health experts here. Topics in Health essays offer overviews of key issues, while Craft essays present "how-to-do-it" tips from top reporters -- all written exclusively for ReportingonHealth.org.
Topics in Health
Four 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalists give an inside look at "Prognosis: Profits," a series about...
One of the public health trends these days appears to be a focus on the built environment. Here's...
Photographer and multimedia journalist Alison Yin, a 2012 National Health Journalism Fellow, shares...
Why does mental health seem to get hit so much harder by cuts than other arenas? What do these cuts...
Asthma is the most common cause of hospital stays for children. It can strike anyone, but has a...
The Affordable Care Act establishes national standards for health insurance benefits. Should the...
With all the media coverage of health reform, there has been surprisingly little reporting about...
Recent developments in Richmond, Va., made a story looking at how where you live affects your...
Indian country is a very different world from the one most of us mainstream reporters inhabit. Here...
The tobacco industry may not have the commercial presence in the U.S. it once did, but cigarette...
Minimally-regulated residential care for the elderly is a fast growing, less expensive alternative...
Help wanted. Pay not so great. Excellent chance of injury. You’ll never see an ad like this in the...
It’s not easy for journalists to undertake testing on humans, nor should it be. But there are...
Journalist Paul Kleyman, who has covered aging issues for more than 20 years, offers tips for...
Get tips for covering the brave new world of personal genomics from a genetic scientist and...
Angelo Solis, a homeless alcoholic, racked up nearly $1 million in medical charges over three years...
Environmental health reporting sheds light on some of the most important decisions a person can...
Veteran food policy journalist Christopher Cook offers context on "food deserts" and how to...
Like writing about abortion or animal rights, writing about vaccines inevitably raises the ire...
Two journalists offer tips for your reporting from their award-winning series on the striking...
Here's a recap of the latest developments on the health reform front, along with some helpful...
Media coverage of health care quality often hinges on a doctor's personality, rather than...
How do you tell the stories of children or teenagers who have stigmatizing health problems...
Follow the money. That simple phrase – though never uttered...
My odyssey into the world of tuberculosis began with a simple remark by a well-connected friend...
When it comes to climate change, the most important impacts of the emissions...
A "show-me-the-evidence" health journalist offers tips on covering alternative medicine without...
Probably every health reporter in the country has been asked at one time or another to write a...
Eleven million Americans have eating disorders. Here are tips on covering this complex disease...
The national story of poor dental health and its implications — former U.S. Surgeon General...
Although scientists and public health officials have long worried that an avian flu virus would...
Imagine if your doctor asked your 12-year-old son to explain to you that you had just been...
With the rise in MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant infections, the few that prove dangerous...
Not many reporters want to write about homeless people – and not many editors want to read about...
Journalists have to ask hard questions about where sources get their money – and about the...
Journalist Emily Schmidt had a rare opportunity to humanize the often-hidden story of domestic...
Native Americans experience higher disease rates than other Americans for problems ranging from...
It started on March 20, 2006, with what I thought was a one-shot story about the health care...
Obesity is visible — walk down the street and you bump into it. Diabetes, on the other hand, is...
The best HIV/AIDS coverage goes beyond the latest statistics of how many people are infected or...
Craft
When I think about lessons learned in the past six months, two phrases come to mind: time...
To document Rubbertown, Ky., residents’ claims of unusually high rates of disease, I needed hard...
In 1973, nearly every Michigan resident was exposed to a toxic chemical. As I brought this story...
At first, investigating what kind of discipline the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board was meting...
How could legislation designed to protect people from suspected cancer-causing compounds in...
When it comes to health issues, the southeastern corner of Virginia usually is pretty average. That...
Former Bloomberg reporter Rob Waters describes his two-year-long quest to interview the “Berlin...
There are plenty of places to stumble in teaching kids how to do health journalism. Here are Marona...
Karen Weintraub, a former editor at The Boston Globe, offers tips for editing health and science...
Pairing English-language and ethnic media to report stories can be rewarding and result in great...
There’s hardly a health story out there that cannot benefit from some good data – from estimates of...
Pulling off a narrative story in the medical world requires a different kind of story thinking and...
Get tips on covering medical research stories from veteran AP reporter Lauran Neergaard.
Journalists are using geographic information software (GIS) to map data for stories and graphics...
The first step in asking a stranger to open up to you is to follow the golden rule: Treat others...
Rural adults are older, sicker, less educated, less well paid and less likely to have health...
