Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Don't miss the 2012 Online Journalism Awards deadline!
If you’ve produced innovative work in multimedia storytelling this year, you may qualify to enter the 2012 Online Journalism Awards. Eight awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation.
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Featured Opportunity
2012 Online Journalism Award, Online News Association
Elegibility:Open to websites, areas of websites and all digital platforms, including smart phones, e-readers and tablets, where journalists have originated the content or selected and amplified it.
Deadline: June 21, 2012, 11:59 p.m. ET.
From the Website:“The OJAs are the premier awards for digital journalists, recognizing major media, international and independent sites producing innovative work in multimedia storytelling. This year, eight awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation, including two $2,500 awards for innovative investigative work. The OJAs are the only comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in digital journalism, administered by ONA and its academic partner, the University of Miami’s School of Communication. Following tradition, this year’s honorees will be announced on the final night of ONA12, the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet, Sept. 20-22, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.”
New Job Listings
Radio Healthcare Reporter, New Hampshire Public Radio
Location: Concord, NH
Status: Full-time
Medium: Radio
Books Editor, FDAnews
Location: Falls Church, VA
Status: Full-time
Medium: Print
Senior Writer, Trimed Media Group (via Gorkana Jobs)
Location:Providence, RI
Status: Full-time
Medium: Print
Web Editor/Designer, Center to Advance Palliative Care (via mediabistro.com)
Location:New York, New York
Status: Full-time
Medium: Online
Policy Writer, Kaiser Permanente
Location: San Diego, California
Status: Full-time
Medium: Print
Senior Editor-Bilingual, Kaiser Permanente
Location: Pasadena, California
Status: Full-time
Medium: Print
Fellowships
The MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowships , Gerontological Society of America and New America Media
Eligibility : Fellows will be selected from each of two categories, ethnic media and general-interest press, for generations-beat proposals. Both staff and freelance journalists are welcome to apply.
Deadline: July 1, 2012
Medium: Print, Broadcast, Radio, Online