Evidence-based workshop for journalists – May 2 – Gold Coast Ray Moynihan, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University, writes: A more effective... Read more
As noted in a recent post, many journalists with longstanding experience and expertise in covering health, medicine and science have left mainstream media outlets. And today, news of another... Read more
What does the launch of MSF.TV say about the future of global health reporting?
Mainstream media outlets have diminishing resources and appetite for global heath coverage, according to a report released last year, Taking The Temperature: The Future of Global Health Jour... Read more
Taking health and medical writing beyond spin – and some other worthy pointers for writers and journalists
Dr Justin Coleman may be best known to Croakey readers as The Naked Doctor but he wears many hats, including as president of the Australasian Medical Writers Association. In the article belo... Read more
Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday last week, and this week it is the turn of The Conversation to be marking its first anniversary. According to the site’s co-founder, Andrew Jaspan... Read more
This (rather longish) post summarises recent developments in health journalism internationally, as well as developments in journalism more broadly that have some relevance for public health.... Read more
As some Croakey readers may appreciate, this blog is something of a hybrid creature. It lives on the Crikey website and receives editorial, technical and other backup from the supportive peo... Read more
The Association of Health Care Journalists, which is based in the US but has members across the globe, offers a useful service to members that I thought may be of interest to Croakey readers... Read more
A dirty great wrap of recent public health news from Twitter
This post is for those who haven’t yet realised that Twitter is a fantastic source of public health news. And it’s also for those who might have realised this, but don’t ha... Read more