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Check out how this freelancer turned a viral wellness trend into a The Washington Post story — a clever lesson in pitching fresh & timely ideas. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
How a freelancer pitched a Washington Post story about ‘Japanese Walking’
See writer Alexandra Frost’s exact pitch, and learn how to frame a tired concept — like walking 10,000 steps a day — into a fresh idea.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Check out how this freelancer turned a viral wellness trend into a The Washington Post story — a clever lesson in pitching fresh & timely ideas. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Sources are going silent — putting truth at risk. Join us Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. EST for “Silenced Sources”, a webinar on protecting vulnerable sources and reporting amid rising retaliation. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sources are going silent — putting truth at risk. Join us Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. EST for “Silenced Sources”, a webinar on protecting vulnerable sources and reporting amid rising retaliation. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Freelancers and staff journalists welcome! SHERF offers workshops, mentorship and pro memberships. Ready to grow your reporting skills? Apply now 👉 healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Freelancers and staff journalists welcome! SHERF offers workshops, mentorship and pro memberships. Ready to grow your reporting skills? Apply now 👉 healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
Journalists — the CDC’s ACIP meets this week to debate ending the universal Hep B birth dose. A decision could reshape newborn vaccination nationwide. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
Why reporters should cover this week's CDC meeting on hepatitis B vaccine and more
The CDC will discuss its current policy of hepatitis B vaccination at birth and other recommendations from Dec. 4-5. Here's what to know.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Journalists — the CDC’s ACIP meets this week to debate ending the universal Hep B birth dose. A decision could reshape newborn vaccination nationwide. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/12...
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🔔 Journalists’ sources fear retaliation. We’re all less informed as a result. Join our live webinar with @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @gracehussain.bsky.social, @fastlerner.bsky.social, Emily Spatz, @harloholm.es and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social.
🗓️ Dec. 9, 2 pm ET
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🗓️ Dec. 9, 2 pm ET
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December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🔔 Journalists’ sources fear retaliation. We’re all less informed as a result. Join our live webinar with @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, @gracehussain.bsky.social, @fastlerner.bsky.social, Emily Spatz, @harloholm.es and @caitlinvogus.bsky.social.
🗓️ Dec. 9, 2 pm ET
RSVP: freedom.press/silenced-sou...
🗓️ Dec. 9, 2 pm ET
RSVP: freedom.press/silenced-sou...
Early-career journalists: want stronger training and mentoring in science, health or environmental reporting? The SHERF Fellowship is accepting applications! Apply by Dec. 19. Details: healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
healthjournalism.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Early-career journalists: want stronger training and mentoring in science, health or environmental reporting? The SHERF Fellowship is accepting applications! Apply by Dec. 19. Details: healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
Getting ready for #MedConf season? 🩺 This guide breaks down the basics of medical conference coverage — what to know, who shows up, why it matters and how to make sense of all those posters and talks. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Medical conference coverage: Learn the basics
Find out what a medical conference is and what it involves, including oral abstracts, research posters, CME sessions and exhibit hall booths.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Getting ready for #MedConf season? 🩺 This guide breaks down the basics of medical conference coverage — what to know, who shows up, why it matters and how to make sense of all those posters and talks. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
If working for yourself feels isolating, these freelancers and a neuroscientist have some advice. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
8 tips for building community and camaraderie as a freelancer
If working for yourself feels isolating, these freelancers and a neuroscientist have some advice.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If working for yourself feels isolating, these freelancers and a neuroscientist have some advice. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Camden hit a historic milestone — zero homicides all summer, the first such summer in 50 years. A powerful reminder: community policing + social services + tech = real change. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
What Camden’s homicide-free summer reveals about community safety and health outcomes
Camden, N.J., recorded no homicides this summer. The milestone is a good starting point for reporters covering gun violence solutions.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Camden hit a historic milestone — zero homicides all summer, the first such summer in 50 years. A powerful reminder: community policing + social services + tech = real change. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
🎉 The SHERF Fellowship is BACK! Science, health & environment reporters — this is your chance to level up your skills, get mentoring and deepen your expertise. Applications now open! Apply here ➡️ healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships
The SHERF fellowships are made to support early-career journalists who are pursuing careers in science, health or environmental reporting.
healthjournalism.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🎉 The SHERF Fellowship is BACK! Science, health & environment reporters — this is your chance to level up your skills, get mentoring and deepen your expertise. Applications now open! Apply here ➡️ healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
New study shows a chilling link: when gun homicides rise in a community, gun suicides follow. Violence prevention may be suicide prevention. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Gun suicides often spike after homicides rise, multi-decade study reveals
Researchers found a close link between gun suicide and homicides in a new multi-decade study from the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New study shows a chilling link: when gun homicides rise in a community, gun suicides follow. Violence prevention may be suicide prevention. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Telling the story of the uninsured isn’t just about policy — it’s about people. This guide helps journalists humanize the issue while grounding their reporting in real policy context. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Balancing humanity and policy when telling stories of the uninsured
Kim Krisberg of Public Health Watch talks about the challenges she faces and the strategies she uses to build trust with uninsured patients.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Telling the story of the uninsured isn’t just about policy — it’s about people. This guide helps journalists humanize the issue while grounding their reporting in real policy context. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Many questions remain unanswered about TrumpRx, the administration’s direct-to-consumer prescription drug referral site announced last month. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
How much will TrumpRx reduce drug prices?
Many questions remain unanswered about TrumpRx, the administration’s direct-to-consumer prescription drug referral site announced last month.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Many questions remain unanswered about TrumpRx, the administration’s direct-to-consumer prescription drug referral site announced last month. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
“Ozempic has entered the (running) chat.” How a freelancer pitched a powerful story on recreational runners using GLP-1s — and got it published in Women’s Health. A lesson in persistence, smart framing, and finding your niche. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
How I pitched a story about runners on Ozempic to Women’s Health magazine
See the exact pitch — and its circuitous backstory — that landed my article in a national print magazine many months later.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Ozempic has entered the (running) chat.” How a freelancer pitched a powerful story on recreational runners using GLP-1s — and got it published in Women’s Health. A lesson in persistence, smart framing, and finding your niche. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/11...
Created by journalists for journalists, the AHCJ Awards remain free from commercial or special-interest influence — celebrating the very best in health care reporting. healthjournalism.org/awards-for-e...
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Created by journalists for journalists, the AHCJ Awards remain free from commercial or special-interest influence — celebrating the very best in health care reporting. healthjournalism.org/awards-for-e...
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BREAKING: former Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases @drdemetre.bsky.social told a group of journalists attending an @healthjournalism.org meeting that DOGE has decided to "remove" primate labs from HIV prevention studies
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
BREAKING: former Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases @drdemetre.bsky.social told a group of journalists attending an @healthjournalism.org meeting that DOGE has decided to "remove" primate labs from HIV prevention studies
BREAKING: "DOGE has decided to remove the primate lab from HIV [research]. What does this mean for Americans? Fewer options for HIV prevention. People WILL get HIV."
Demetre C. Daskalakis,Former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Demetre C. Daskalakis,Former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
BREAKING: "DOGE has decided to remove the primate lab from HIV [research]. What does this mean for Americans? Fewer options for HIV prevention. People WILL get HIV."
Demetre C. Daskalakis,Former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Demetre C. Daskalakis,Former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
"I don’t know if the CDC will survive with what they’re doing."
Debra Houry, M.D., MPH. Former Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science, CDC
Debra Houry, M.D., MPH. Former Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science, CDC
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"I don’t know if the CDC will survive with what they’re doing."
Debra Houry, M.D., MPH. Former Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science, CDC
Debra Houry, M.D., MPH. Former Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science, CDC
"We've move from evidence based decision making to 'Decision-based evidence making.'"
Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, Former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, Former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Data gaps + agency shake‑ups = big challenges for health journalists. Hear insider views from former CDC leaders in our upcoming webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives.” TODAY, 1pm EST— don’t miss it. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"We've move from evidence based decision making to 'Decision-based evidence making.'"
Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, Former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, Former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
"The only way we can make a difference right now is by stating what is wrong. This is not normal." - Demetre C. Daskalakis, M.D., MPH, former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Data gaps + agency shake‑ups = big challenges for health journalists. Hear insider views from former CDC leaders in our upcoming webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives.” TODAY, 1pm EST— don’t miss it. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
healthjournalism.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"The only way we can make a difference right now is by stating what is wrong. This is not normal." - Demetre C. Daskalakis, M.D., MPH, former Director, CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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"Its not that we didn't want to work with them, it was that what they were asking of us was inappropriate." - Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
"Its not that we didn't want to work with them, it was that what they were asking of us was inappropriate." - Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Data gaps + agency shake‑ups = big challenges for health journalists. Hear insider views from former CDC leaders in our upcoming webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives.” TODAY, 1pm EST— don’t miss it. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
healthjournalism.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happening now!
"Its not that we didn't want to work with them, it was that what they were asking of us was inappropriate." - Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
"Its not that we didn't want to work with them, it was that what they were asking of us was inappropriate." - Daniel Jernigan, M.D., MPH, former Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Data gaps + agency shake‑ups = big challenges for health journalists. Hear insider views from former CDC leaders in our upcoming webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives.” TODAY, 1pm EST— don’t miss it. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
healthjournalism.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Data gaps + agency shake‑ups = big challenges for health journalists. Hear insider views from former CDC leaders in our upcoming webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives.” TODAY, 1pm EST— don’t miss it. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
How has Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s role in public‑health data changed — and what does that mean for reporters? Join our webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives” on Nov 19. Register now. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
healthjournalism.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
How has Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s role in public‑health data changed — and what does that mean for reporters? Join our webinar “Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives” on Nov 19. Register now. healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
🚨 Calling all health journalists: Don’t miss out on our Health Journalism Slack community. Public channels, members-only spaces, source hunts, kudos and more. Ready to jump in? airtable.com/app23tAZKSgk...
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚨 Calling all health journalists: Don’t miss out on our Health Journalism Slack community. Public channels, members-only spaces, source hunts, kudos and more. Ready to jump in? airtable.com/app23tAZKSgk...
Student journalists, your work matters! First-place winners in the Student category now get up to $400 travel reimbursement to Health Journalism 2026 — plus other prizes. healthjournalism.org/awards-for-e...
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Student journalists, your work matters! First-place winners in the Student category now get up to $400 travel reimbursement to Health Journalism 2026 — plus other prizes. healthjournalism.org/awards-for-e...