Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Apply for a Health Care Journalism Award
Partners in Health seeks a writer/editor with print and online experience to help further its mission to provide health care to underserved communities worldwide. Plus, get ready for the early bird deadline for Association of Health Care Journalists' Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.
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Featured Listing
Senior Writer/Editor, Partners in Health (via LinkedIn)
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
"Overall Responsibilities: The senior writer/editor is responsible for overseeing editorial content for both print and web. This may include design and execution of content on various news platforms. The editor works closely with management to ensure the message and mission of PIH are conveyed in the content presented. The editor supervises writers and assistants, overseeing assignments, ensuring deadlines met, and content meets professional standards. The editor may be required to produce or contribute to a story budget, take the lead role on special projects, or work with other departments on targeted material."
New Job and Internship Listings
Reporter, Kaiser Health News (via Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Researcher, Women's Health
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print
Freelance Healthcare Business Reporter, university-based publication (via mediabistro)
Location: Flexible
Status: Freelance/Project Basis
Medium: Print
Awards
Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, Association of Health Care Journalists
Eligibility: All entries must have been published or broadcast for the first time during the 2011 calendar year.
Deadline: For the early-bird rates ($30 members, $55 nonmembers), entries must be received by Jan. 3, 2012. Regular-rate entries ($50 members, $75 nonmembers) must be received no later than Feb. 3, 2012.
From the Website: "Entries can include a wide range of health coverage including public health, consumer health, medical research, the business of health care and health ethics. The new topic categories are Business*, Investigative*, Consumer/Feature*, Public Health, and Health Policy. Those marked with an asterisk are divided by size of the publication/outlet."
Prizes
2011 Hillman Prizes, The Hillman Foundation
Eligibility: Work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2010.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
From the Website: "Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in the public interest. Our six categories will include books (non-fiction), reporting in newspaper, magazine, and blogs, film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), and photojournalism. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the U.S."