Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Get funding for your 2012 project

Today is the last day to send in your applications for the Association of Health Care Journalists' Media Fellowships on Health Performance. Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity. We've also listed this week's health media jobs, internships, educational opportunities and more.

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Featured Fellowship

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."

New Job and Internship Listings

Assistant Medical Editor, Disney ABC
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Broadcast, Online

Genetics Writer/Editor, ICF International (via careerbuilder)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

Junior Pharmacy Reporter, Atlantic Information Services (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online

News Reporter, NewScientist News, Reed Business Information
Location: Waltham, MA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

Online Content Coordinator, HealthLeaders Media, a division of HCPro (via mediabistro)
Location: Danvers, MA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

Editor/Proposal Writer, Abt Associates (via simplyhired)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Status: Full Time
Medium: Other

Freelance Writer/Researcher, book publishing firm (via mediabistro)
Location: Houston, TX
Status: Freelance/Project basis
Medium: Print

Fellowships and Grants

Fund for Environmental Journalism, Society of Environmental Journalists
Eligibility: Any qualified journalist working independently or on the staff of either a for-profit or non-profit news organization worldwide.
Deadline: November 15, midnight, your local time.
From the Website: "SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism accepts applications for grants of up to $3,500 to help underwrite environmental reporting projects and entrepreneurial ventures. The purpose of the FEJ is to provide incentives and support to qualified journalists and news organizations to enhance the quantity and quality of environmental journalism."

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."

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."