Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Cover health for NPR
NPR seeks a Senior Editor to produce health content with its award-winning team this week. Also featured are opportunities with healthy lifestyle websites, trade publications and more. And as always, find the latest information on fellowships, workshops and more.
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Featured Listing
Correspondent-Senior Editor, Health, NPR
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Broadcast, Online
"A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. NPR listeners value information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – our employees do too. Innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
This full-time Correspondent and Senior Editor focuses on medicine, health and health care, scientific research and federal policy, on the radio and online. The Correspondent/Senior Editor develops ideas/proposals for reports and programs; responds to and reports on breaking news; initiates and develops short-term feature stories and in-depth enterprise reports; files newsspots and blog posts; and prepares multimedia presentations. The Correspondent/Senior Editor develops leads for investigative stories and reports, and produces special investigative projects for radio and online audiences. In the Senior Editor role (50%), helps plan and coordinate NPR's medicine and health coverage, including editing reports, programs and online materials submitted by staff and freelance correspondents, reporters and producers. Responsible for editorial integrity and quality of material; provides feedback to supervisors on performance of staff."
New Job and Internship Listings
Medical Editor, Magazine and Online, TMG (via mediabistro)
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Director of Digital Products and Properties, HealthyWomen.org (via mediabistro)
Location: NJ and New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Senior Editor, Healthy Living, Huffington Post Media Group
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Staff Writer, TriMed Media Group (via Gorkana Jobs)
Location: Providence, RI
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
Web Health Writer and Editor, Inflexxion
Location: Newton Upper Falls, MA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Fellowships and Grants
Media Fellowships on Health Performance, Association of Health Care Journalists and The Commonwealth Fund
Eligibility: Applicants who have interesting or unique projects in mind for their news outlets (or for freelancers, potential news outlets) that hold the promise of informing and educating the public.
Deadline: Nov. 4, 2011
From the Website: "The AHCJ Media Fellowships on Health Performance will enable health care journalists to examine local health care systems to determine what makes them effective or ineffective in delivering the right care at the right time, at the right price for as many people as possible. This year-long program, supported by The Commonwealth Fund, will allow four fellows to continue in their current jobs, while offering support to complete significant and unique reporting projects during 2012. Guidance will be provided through two seminars, consultations with AHCJ fellowship leaders and conference networking. Financial support will allow fellows to complete site visits for interviewing relevant stakeholders, to collect data relevant to the health systems and to employ any technology to deliver multiplatform stories."
Educational Opportunities
Business of Health Care Workshop, Association of Health Care Journalists
Eligibility: Registration is open to AHCJ members and non-members.
Program: The workshop will take place Oct. 27-28 in San Francisco, CA, and will provide resources, skills and ideas that journalists can apply to their jobs immediately.
From the Website: Learn more about how to cover this tremendous economic engine beyond the routine stories, with tools to find essential information your audiences need, crossing the traditional beats of health, business and government. Panel topics will include: tapping the holy grail of hospital data, using online tools for journalists to visualize data, the effect of the economy and reform on health businesses, the insurance battles ahead, lunch with futurist and author Ian Morrison, Medicare at a crossroads" and much more.
Competitions
Journalism contest on disability issues, Union of Russian Journalists and Russian Society of People with Disabilities (via ijnet)
Eligibility: Entries must be published from Dec. 1, 2010 - Oct. 31, 2011.
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2011
From the Website: "The competition is aimed to attract attention of media to the people with disabilities, their issues and challenges. Potential topics include inclusion of the people with disabilities into society and encouraging them to participate in the life of society actively."