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Healthy Journalism: April 2009
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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Last week at this time, I was at the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference in Seattle. Professional meetings like this always generate great moments provocative workshops, reunions with old friends, and the chance to rub shoulders with brilliant actors (Sarah Jones) and members of the U.S. Senate (Ron Wyden). Grady graduate students Christy Fricks, Marona Graham-Bailey and Jordan Sarver all placed stories at PitchFest. At the lavish opening reception, Brian an...
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Healthy Journalism: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Okay, the health and medical journalism grad students were right to veto the silly name I proposed for a flocks of Twitters to accompany DeepSouthHealth. After all, their weekly posts deal with health disparities in Northeast Georgia counties, lung disease, gang violence and the perils of being pregnant, mentally ill, elderly or a newcomer in areas where services aren’t universally available. Maybe student reporters would ask tighter, more immediate questions of experts in the...
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Healthy Journalism: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Community journalism and pond water. Once upon a time, my generous parents gave me a microscope for Christmas. With a single eyepiece, a lighted and adjustable stage, and a solid wooden case it was just what I wanted. I discovered a world in that drop of water. Being assigned to one county might seem too tight across the shoulders for ambitious young journalists who want to write big stories for national audiences. Posted by Patricia Thomas @ 12:45 PM. Grady College's Health a...
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Healthy Journalism: September 2010
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Present at the creation. Most graduate programs in journalism can’t offer their students a bedside perspective on the birth of a new medical school. But HMJ at UGA. Is doing just that and it’s an unprecedented opportunity for reporters training to spend their careers on the health and medicine beat. New grad students will pick up the story every year and eventually maybe we’ll have our own version of Nova’s documentaries. About Harvard Medical School. There are only 133 accred...
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Healthy Journalism: May 2010
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Thursday, May 20, 2010. A night at the movies. Last summer, they were just rising eighth graders with Flip Cams. But on May 18, students who participated in the University of Georgia/ Greene County Schools. Picture of Health" project were celebrities. Youth citizen journalists who were part of the project. Our night at the movies was a revelation. We knew that Greene County Schools were using movies as a hands-on approach to learning, but we had no idea what the students were accomplishing with help ...
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Healthy Journalism: March 2009
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Monday, March 30, 2009. Most journalists know better than to use racist or sexist terms, thanks to decades of consciousness raising and education. Now there’s a style guide to help journalists, script writers and advertisers. Media Takes: On Aging was prepared by the International Longevity Center-USA and Aging Services of California, and it’s available at www.tinyurl.com/cbe3mw. Most of us know not to use obviously insulting terms such as codger or sweet old lady, but we may not realize that baby boomer...
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Healthy Journalism: April 2010
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Sunday, April 18, 2010. Remembering the immortal book tour. About two weeks before Publisher’s Weekly. Predicted that Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks had the makings of a national bestseller, I had the same thought. My hunches are not usually as good as this one turned out to be, but as Jimmy Carter used to say, even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then. On February 2, Skloot was on NPR’s Fresh Air. For the whole hour, great reviews piled up, and then there was The Colbert Report.
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Healthy Journalism: January 2009
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. For science reporters, the first encounter with a Nobel laureate is intimidating - no matter how warm and friendly he or she is as a person. As soon as you've interviewed one, or simply shaken hands and exchanged pleasantries during a noisy reception, you relax a bit. So you might as well bag your first Nobelist tomorrow. It gets easier with practice so you might as well start tomorrow. Posted by Patricia Thomas @ 2:06 PM. Monday, January 19, 2009. A new one could be had for ...
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Healthy Journalism: March 2010
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Monday, March 15, 2010. Greetings from the Press Room. This week, 27 aspiring reporters will receive calls and letters inviting them to join the Grady College family this coming Fall semester as graduate students in journalism. I'll be making some of those calls myself, mostly to students who've expressed an interest in HMJ at UGA. It's a great gig. And anyone who says press rooms are dead has clearly not been to this one. Health and medical journalism graduate program. Posted by Patricia Thomas @ 1:36 PM.
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Healthy Journalism: May 2011
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Friday, May 6, 2011. Pizza and a movie. It was the classic Friday night date: pizza, movie and hilarity with friends. Except that it happened at noon on a Wednesday, when The Med School Project thanked MCG-UGA Medical Partnership students, faculty and staff who have been interviewed (some several times) and who have allowed HMJ videographers to document study sessions, soccer games, community service activities and even lunch preparation in their homes. These videos were reported, written and produced by...
