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The Public Health Beat: What Is It

WEBIt was made by Dr. William Foege, a revered figure in American public health who was most recently senior advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “At its base,” Foege …

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Dr. Ashish Jha on Bracing for the Pandemic’s Third Year

WEBDr. Ashish Jha, the new White House Covid-19 coordinator, spoke with the Nieman Foundation on what to expect from the third year of the pandemic Elise Amendola/AP …

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An Antidote to the Minimization of the Long Covid Crisis

WEBThat’s why health and science journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis co-founded The Sick Times, a digital publication that launched last November to “ …

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STAT's Helen Branswell On How COVID-19 Has Changed …

WEBBranswell is a senior writer at STAT, a media company focused on health, medicine and science, where she covers infectious disease and global health. For the past 21 …

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Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat.

WEBEach Covid infection increases the risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes — including in children — organ failure, stroke, heart conditions, kidney disease, and …

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Why Some Journalists Are Centering Trauma-Informed …

WEBFrom interviewing a family member of a crime victim to framing the plight of a migrant seeking asylum to writing about a person experiencing addiction or selecting a …

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5 Tips for Journalists Covering Mental and Behavioral Health

WEBHere are five tips that emerged at the workshop for navigating the complex terrain of mental health reporting: 1. Watch your language — and your tropes. Dr. …

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The Worst Flu Pandemic on Record

WEBA disease that struck with frightening speed. In 1918-19, the world saw the most catastrophic pandemic in modern history. More people died from the H1N1 strain that …

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What’s Old Is New Again

WEBView accompanying images » When I first started looking at historic photographs of an abandoned Ellis Island hospital, immigration was barely in the news. That was more …

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A Century of Flu Pandemics

WEBThe Hong Kong Flu, 1968-69. With a death toll of 750,000 worldwide and 33,800 in the United States, the Hong Kong Flu strain (H3N2) caused the mildest pandemic in the …

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Learning To Be a Medical Journalist

WEBSo if you are a college student and want to be a medical journalist, take courses in the humanities (English, literature, foreign languages, history) as well as basic science …

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Avoiding “Vaccine Nationalism” and Other Perspectives on Covid …

WEBDr. Ashish Jha, an expert on pandemic preparedness and response, pictured in 2019 Lisa Abitbol/Havard Global Health Institute In January, shortly after the World Health …

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Medical Journalism Training

WEBThis is the only program in the country that balances study across the disciplines of journalism and public health. The one-year master’s program covers a broad spectrum …

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A successful investigative career and a vision led Jim Morris to …

WEBTasha Tuvango via DepositPhotos. J. im Morris was four decades into a successful investigative journalism career spotlighting environmental and labor issues.. …

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The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announces its …

WEBThe Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 24 leading journalists from around the world for two semesters of study at Harvard University, where they will …

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Reporting and Resilience: How Journalists Are Managing Their …

WEBA Kaiser Family Foundation poll conducted in March showed that 45% of American adults felt that the coronavirus was harming their mental health. White newsrooms can feel like …

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Covering Abortion as a Personal Health Care Issue, and Not Just a

WEBThe failure to cover abortion through the lens of health care is particularly acute now, in the midst of a historic pandemic. As the coronavirus crisis enveloped the …

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Newest Americans: stories of immigrants who help make the …

WEBThe faces of Newest Americans. Courtesy of Newest Americans. When Mexican director Guillermo del Toro won his best directing Oscar recently for “Shape of Water,” he said: “I …

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“Pain and Profit” by The Dallas Morning News wins Worth …

WEB“Pain and Profit,” a 16-month Dallas Morning News investigation into mismanaged health care in Texas by reporters J. David McSwane and Andrew Chavez …

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Esquire goes home with Philip Roth

WEBOur latest Notable Narrative turns cliché upside down to see what will fall out of its pockets. Maybe you can’t go home again, but Esquire’s Scott Raab wants to see what happens …

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Amy Ellis Nutt, NF ’05

WEBHarvard poetry professor Helen Vendler Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Nutt, a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, won a Pulitzer for her …

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