Cheesecake Medicine: More Tips from Prognosis: Profits Investigative Series...
How North Carolina reporters "outsourced for expertise" in their groundbreaking investigation of hospital profits, and more tips from the award-winning series.
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Your body is covered – inside and out – with alien beings that are feeding on you and breeding on you. Meet your microbiome.
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How to choose and execute an in-depth reporting project – while still doing everything else you have to do.
View ArticleBeat the Clock: Lassoing and Taming Your Journalism Project
Asking the right questions can help you narrow your scope on a big reporting project.
View ArticleBeat the Clock: It's an Interview, Not a Date
Keep your interviews short, shut up and cover the essentials: here are more tips from a veteran journalist on how to manage a big reporting project.
View ArticleJust One Breath: Tackling a Disease Before Treatment Even Starts
We don’t write enough about what happens when someone is given the wrong diagnosis. Here's what you should know.
View ArticleBeat the Clock: Take Off Your Pastry Chef Hat and Write!
To keep your reporting projects on track, think more like a taxi driver and less like a pastry chef.
View ArticleTalking Cancer: Tips from the International Workshop for Scientific Journalism
Get tips for smart coverage of cancer from an international journalism conference.
View ArticleTalking Cancer: More Tips from the International Workshop for Scientific...
Learn the latest tips for covering cancer — including important difference in types of screening — from an international journalism conference.
View ArticleBeat the Clock: Keep Your Boss Interested as Your Project Progresses
It's not enough to produce a great reporting project. You've got to keep higher-ups excited about it. Here are some tips.
View ArticleKnow Your Source: Where Do Health Data Originate?
Over a series of posts, I’m going to try to break down some of the broad categories of data, discuss how they are used and point out some of their limitations. I’m going to cover four main areas: vital...
View ArticleHit After Hit: Hard to Blame Football for Jovan Belcher's Off-Field Violence
Big hits are no more the culprit in the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide than they are in the ongoing story of head trauma in football.
View ArticleTesting, Testing: The Cost of Health Care for Health Care’s Sake
After scoring a touchdown, the son of Orange County Register humor columnist Marla Jo Fisher fainted. On game day, he was so nervous he hadn't eaten anything. Still, the coaches wouldn't let him come...
View ArticleEverybody Hurts: Paying for Prescription Tracking in Pennies
Possibilities for funding California's now useless prescription drug monitoring program range from charging drug companies a penny or less per prescription or levying a small licensing fee to medical...
View ArticleEcological Anxiety: New Book Taps Medical Fears, Yields Empowering Insights
Having grown up in a "natural is best" kind of environment, Nathanael Johnson became the family skeptic. His book looks at the polarized viewpoints in a world of "global warming, killer germs, and...
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