Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Health producer positions available

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Featured Opportunity

Content Producer-Health & Medical, KNBC                                                                       
Location: Burbank, CA
Status: Full-Time
Description: NBC4 is looking for a hands-on Health and Medical Content Producer to join our award winning News department. This person will be responsible for researching, investigating, writing, editing, producing and gathering content for medical and health pieces for breaking news, features, and recurring branded medical segments. They will own the editorial and creative development of assigned medical and health stories across all of NBC4’s platforms, including but not limited to broadcast, digital and Web.                 

Other Job Listings

Managing Editor, CHCF Center for Health Reporting
Location: Alhambra, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online/New Media

Health Producer/Reporter, The University of Arizona
Location: Tucson, AZ
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Broadcast

Health Editor, Everday Health
Location: Manhattan, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

Deputy Editor, Fit Pregnancy-Natural Health
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online

Awards and Fellowships

2014 MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, The Gerontological Society of America
From the website: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM) are welcoming applications — from journalists who cover issues in aging and/or who work for ethnic media outlets serving U.S. communities.
Deadline: July 15, 2013
Requirements: Selected Fellows will attend GSA’s 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting, which is taking place in New Orleans from Wednesday, November 20, to Sunday, November 24. Each Fellow will be expected to participate in a special one-day preconference session (Wednesday, November 20) and at least two days of general meeting sessions (Thursday, November 21, and Friday, November 22). Fellows will also commit to completing one short-term story about any aspect of the meeting and a long-term in-depth project of their own design. The latter must be outlined in a one-to-two page proposal.