Angilee Shah

<p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/pgirshmankfforg">Peggy Girshman</a>, executive editor for online at <a href="http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/">Kaiser Health News</a> (KHN), is hiring. This week, she pulls back the curtain for <em>Career GPS</em> readers and explains what she is looking for in a job applicant and shares her personal do's and don'ts for journalism résumés.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/wjohnsonfiercehealthcarecom">Wen… Johnson</a> spent five years as a reporter at newspapers in Cape Cod and then on Capitol Hill before taking the leap to the B2B (business-to-business) media world.</p> <p>"It's something that I fell into accidentally," Johnson says. But she discovered that writing about one industry for a new audience of executives and others in healthcare was both "really interesting" and viable. "I could see that there was a career track here."</p>

<p>For writers of most any stripe, getting the gig is only half the battle. Once you've finished your masterpiece, be it an investigative report or a quick blog post, how do you cut through the vast Internet -- Google has already indexed more than one trillion pages -- to find the readers for whom you have worked so hard?</p>

<p>Social media, blogs and instantaneous online distribution has revolutionized news. The reach of social media is comparable to mainstream media -- in the billions -- "but that's where the similarities end," said attorney Wendy Heimann-Nunes, who moderated an event in Hollywood today about intellectual property, part of the multi-city virtual conference <a href="http://socialmediaweek.org/">Social Media Week</a>. On the Internet, content can be moved and shared and copied with ease.</p>

<p>Some of heath care reform's provisions went into effect today -- to acclaim and criticism, but mostly just explanation. Here's a rundown of coverage in the <em>ReportingonHealth</em> community.</p> <p><strong>8 changes, 7 caveats:</strong> <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/users/macwrite&quot;

<p>Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/junk-food-and-hospitals">James Barone asked why hospitals serve vending machine snacks and unhealthy food</a>. An event in Los Angeles yesterday raised other basic questions about hospitals: Can a shift in thinking about hospital design actually improve health?</p>

<p>Amy Wallace recently wrote about the minefield surrounding her reporting on vaccines for <em>ReportingonHealth</em>. Two months after her November 2009 <em>Wired</em> cover story "An Epidemic of Fear: One Man's Battle Against the Anti-vaccine Movement" was published, she was sued. Though the laws

<p>Keep up with the best reading on the web with the <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/taxonomy/term/10573/feed"><em>Daily Briefing</em> via RSS</a>. Here are today's picks:</p> <p><strong>Beat It:</strong> Apologies for the corny King of Pop reference, but I had no choice. <em>PLoS Medicine</em> published a study this week that demonstrates <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.10003… value of being a specialized health reporter</a>.</p>

<p>These days, when we talk about careers in journalism, the focus is often on the razzle dazzle, the tricks and technology and the ups and downs of the industry. This week at <em>CareerGPS</em>, I'm getting back to basics. A student asked me recently, how do I make a career as a writer? I thought a

<p>The annual convention of the Asian American Journalists Association (<a href="http://www.aaja.org/">AAJA</a&gt;) early in August was filled from top to bottom with practical and career-oriented sessions. For me, one of the most useful was off the official books. By Twitter and email, AAJA Texas chapter president Iris Kuo organized a lunchtime get-together for freelancers in the hotel lobby.</p>