Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Health Policy, Drug Reporting and AmeriHealth
This week, we feature a role in executive communications at AmeriHealth, which is looking for a communications professional with multimedia savvy. In addition, check out upcoming deadlines for fellowships, awards and prizes.
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Featured Listing
Writer/Editor Executive Communications, AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Other
"As a Writer/Editor, Executive Communications with AmeriHealth, you will enjoy working on and developing a wide range of content and multimedia projects with a specific focus on executive communications. Working with executives and senior leadership, you will have the opportunity to showcase your proven writing abilities to develop presentations, emails, webcasts, memos and other communications that will be seen by employees company-wide. To find success you should love to write and be ready to produce every day.
As we continue to grow and look to elevate internal communications efforts, you'll have the chance to help innovate and bring new technologies and ideas to the table. This is a visible, impact position where you will have the opportunity to prove yourself and progress your career with AmeriHealth."
New Job and Internship Listings
Healthcare Policy Reporter, global newswire (via Journalism Jobs)
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Wires
Global Drug-Device Regulatory Reporter, FDAnews (via Journalism Jobs)
Location: Falls Church, VA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Fellowships and Grants
The Lab at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Investigative Journalist Fellowship, Harvard University
Eligibility: The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years of investigative reporting experience, though those with less experience will be considered.
Deadline: February 1, 2012
From the Website: "Launched in 2010, the Lab is a five-year research project to study the phenomenon of 'institutional corruption.' 'Institutional corruption' refers not to bribery, or other familiar violations of law or ethics. It refers instead to influences within an economy of influence that tend to (1) weaken the effectiveness of an institution, especially by (2) weakening public trust of the institution. The institutions within which the Lab is exploring these phenomena include any significant public institution that depends for its success in part at least upon a substantial level of public trust. Such institutions can be either public or private, and if private, then either for-profit or not-for-profit. They include among others the academy, public health institutions, the financial services industry, the elected state judiciary, media (public and private), and Congress."
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."