Engaging with Croakey

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Croakey Health Media funding consortium

Membership of the Croakey Health Media funding consortium is available for organisations that align with our values and work. Please contact Laurell Grubb for more information.

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Advertise with Croakey

By advertising with Croakey, you or your organisation can reach our informed, influential audience.

Advertising is available:

On our website (average 35,000 page views per month)
In our weekly email news bulletin (reaching hundreds of leading health
organisations)
Via Twitter and other social media channels (1.5 million social media
impressions each month). Followers include national and global health leaders.
Download our advertising rate card here.

If you would like to advertise with Croakey, please contact us at: laurell@croakey.org.

A proposed new model for public interest journalism

In addition to the options outlined above, Croakey Health Media has developed an innovative proposal for embedding public interest journalism into research projects.

In this model, editorial control rests with Croakey working to an MoU with the research team governing ethics, processes and research integrity. A team from Croakey Health Media would work on the project, taking on different roles throughout its life; for example, as writers, designers and editors (with works of journalism including articles, video, photographs, images, publications and other content), as social media contributors, and as co-authors of academic articles.

The benefit of having a number of the Croakey Health Media team involved is that we all bring different skills and experiences to the work that will value add to the outcomes. Croakey.org would be the media publishing partner, publishing the related works of journalism. These would also be available for publishing on the project website and newsletters etc, and Croakey would work proactively to co-publish with other media partners to increase the impact of related works of journalism.

As well as producing works of independent public interest journalism, this model would:

Develop new knowledge about the theory and practice of research translation and impact
Develop new knowledge about the theory and practice of social journalism and public interest journalism
Assist the research team to develop new knowledge
Provide significant works of journalism on matters of public interest relating to the research context, questions and outcomes
Contribute usefully to research processes and outcomes while maintaining editorial independence
Develop new models to sustain public interest journalism at a time of crisis.

This model is NOT providing public relations or communications services.

Help support non-profit public interest journalism

Public interest journalism is an important determinant of health, due to its roles in accountability and holding power to account, empowering communities, and contributing to health literacy. A strong public interest journalism sector contributes to planetary health and health equity, as well as healthier people, communities, societies, and systems of governance.

Join one of our annual Funding Consortia

Croakey has a mixed revenue stream that includes support from members of our funding consortium. There are four tiers of funding consortia:-

Health Equity Champion
Health Equity Star
Health Equity Heart, and
Health Equity Supporter

The details of each tier can be found here and a list of current consortium members can be found here.

If you would like to be part of one of the Consortia, please contact us at: info@croakey.org.

You can also support Croakey by subscribing to our weekly email bulletin or by making a donation.

What people say about Croakey

It’s a must to stay connected with Croakey Health Media. They know all about what’s happening in Public Health, right up to the last minute!

Dr Janet Roden

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association

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One of my favourite things about Croakey is the active engagement of so many people with a passion for equity and public health.

Dr Melissa Sweet

public health journalist and Croakey founder

Croakey has pioneered an unprecedented role in providing an open forum for the revelation and exchange of thinking on health in Australia. Thanks to the indefatigable Croakey team, we have a place where players from all corners of health can share ideas, news and commentary.

Mark Metherell

Health journalist

It was great to be able to collaborate with the Croakey team for the COVID-19 CaLD Community Think Tank. The event was aimed at hearing from those working in multicultural and community organisations about the challenges they have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic but to also capture lessons learnt and strategies that have enhanced engagement and to share those lessons. By working with Cate and the Croakey team we were able to capture those insights and to disseminate them in a timely way which is critical during a pandemic. The resulting article captured all of the key messages in a format that was relevant and tailored to the relevant audiences. The team were easy to connect and work with and I would certainly look to repeat the partnership again.

Associate Professor Holly Seale

School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales

It’s always a delight to see the diversity of issues on Croakey, particularly in health policy and social justice, that you just don’t see anywhere else. It’s also great to see the diversity of voices on Croakey, particularly Indigenous Australians and those coming in via social media.

Fron Jackson-Webb

Health editor

Croakey allows for independent voices to resonate in and through virtual time and space. Real people, real voices, real issues with independent oomph – that’s Croakey. Time and again I go to Croakey to understand the politics behind public health because Croakey sorts the wheat from the chaff. There is just one mob of journos to trust with my voice, and it’s the Croakey mob. In the surreal and disconnected world of academia I go to Croakey to get grounded in the real issues.

Dr Mark Lock

UTS

At the Walkleys we celebrate and support great Australian journalism. Through our Walkley Grants for Innovation in Journalism we encourage projects that combine quality reporting with an entrepreneurial approach. We’re proud to support projects like Croakey that are an innovative platform driven by independent, ethical journalism for the public benefit.

Clare Fletcher

The Walkley Foundation

Mental Health Victoria – Croakey Conference News Service coverage of #Lived Experience online forum
Mental Health Victoria, in partnership with the Victorian Healthcare Association, ran an online forum on the importance of embedding the voice of lived experience in mental health system reform.
Croakey journalist Marie McInerney did an exceptional job of covering the event through both real-time social media posts and a written article summarising the discussion and themes that arose during the forum.
Her regular Twitter posts throughout the event generated lively discussion and helped emphasise and elevate the important contributions from the consumer voices.
The article that Marie wrote on the event, titled “Imagine a mental health system that meets the needs of consumers and carers” took the reader on a journey through the forum’s key themes along with images and other media to supplement the discussion. It received very positive feedback from all involved.

Larissa Taylor

Director, Policy, Mental Health Victoria

Loved the program. Love the Croakey news service – think it really gives the conference a bigger audience!

Great event and extensive social media coverage

Conference delegates

The Oceanic Palliative Care Conference (#21OPCC)

Croakey has served splendidly as an independent voice in the health policy arena. It provided a forum for people with ideas and passion about health, especially from a social perspective and policy position, but always with humane concern can find a home. We wish the re-platformed Croakey every success.

Emeritus Professor Stephen Leeder

The University of Sydney

Croakey provides an informed voice to the health, equity and environmental debates, and is helping mobilise the necessary political and popular support for a radical break from the complacent and compartmentalized attitude that still dominates much of the political agenda.

Professor Sharon Friel

Australian National University