Health Media Jobs and Opportunities
There's still time to apply for the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism; send your applications in by today. Also, check out the latest job openings for editors and writers for various publications and medical organizations.
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Featured Listing
Communication Editor, Children's Medical Center (via Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)
Location: Dallas, TX
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
"Position Summary: Responsible for overall supervision of hospital publications, including evaluating, reviewing, and editing in both print and electronic media. Supervises development of content and visual/graphic presentation for completeness, accuracy, and correctness, as well as alignment to enterprise mission, strategy and content goals. Ensures that key messages regarding Children's brand are sustained and consistently delivered through publication content.
Essential Functions:
• Align with both marketing and communications directors to oversee tactical elements of content development for assigned publications
• Manage development of publications (print and electronic) to meet expressed strategic priorities.
• Ensure effective delivery of messages
• Identify content for publications and most effective way to present information to support communication and business objectives.
• Measure effectiveness of publications, and manage continuous improvement."
New Job and Internship Listings
Writer/Editor, Weill Cornell Medical College
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Associate Copy Writer, Rodale Inc.
Location: Emmaus, PA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Fitness Editor, Prevention, Rodale Inc.
Location: Emmaus, PA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Digital Marketing and Analytics Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (via Pulse + Signal)
Location: Princeton, NJ
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Fellowships and Grants
Journalism Fellowship on Poverty, Marguerite Casey Foundation
Eligibility: Open to print, electronic and new media journalists with a minimum of three years of professional experience.
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2012
From the Website: "The Marguerite Casey Foundation Journalism Fellowship on Poverty aims to increase the public's and policymakers' understanding of poverty through the medium of journalism. Recipients of the 2012 Journalism Fellowship will write at least one in-depth story or a short series illustrating how language, culture and race influence public attitudes and policy about poor people."
Projects
Borderlands, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Eligibility: Proposals of no more than 500 words and a travel budget.
Deadline: Feb. 6, 2012
From the Website: "For the e-books project, we are looking for experienced writers who can deliver rich narrative and thoughtful analysis on how borders shape the way people in various parts of the world experience their lives. The reporting should focus on one border or one region."
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."
Health Care Research and Journalism Awards, NIHCM Foundation
Eligibility: Entries must originally have been published or aired in 2011. Additional eligibility guidelines specific to award categories can be found on the website.
Deadline: February 12, 2012
From the Website: "Advances in health policy find their foundation in academic research and are achieved through public discourse facilitated by the media. To recognize the critical role both the research and journalism communities play in the health care system, each year NIHCM Foundation presents awards for outstanding work in health care research and journalism."
SEJ 2012 Awards for Reporting on the Environment, Society of Environmental Journalists
Eligibility: Reporters who cover health, politics, science, energy, local government or any other beat are encouraged to enter their work on environmental subjects.
Deadline: April 2, 2012
From the Website: "SEJ's 10th annual journalism contest recognized outstanding environmental coverage in six categories, each with cash prizes. This year, SEJ has added a category for Photojournalism. Up to five photographs on one or more environmental topics, published between March 1, 2011 and Feb. 29, 2012."