Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Health reporting jobs in radio and print available throughout the country.
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Featured Opportunity
Healthcare Reporter, WMFE-FM 90.7 News & Talk (via journalismjobs.com)
About: WMFE-FM in Orlando is seeking an experienced, professional, and creative Healthcare Reporter to provide in-depth reporting on issues important to our Central Florida listeners. As a reporter, he/she will produce network-quality long-form news and feature stories, interviews, and spots on a variety of healthcare-related topics. S/he will participate in WMFE news series and special coverage. The reporter will also use social media to keep the online audience up to date on news items, and provide blog posts and online content for WMFE.ORG.
Location: Orlando, FL
Medium: Radio/Online
Status: Full-Time
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Reporter, Fresno Bee, Vide en el Valle
Location: Fresno, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Requirements: Vida en el Valle, the country’s most-awarded bilingual (English/Spanish) newspaper, is seeking a highly motivated health reporter who will thrive on covering Latino health issues primarily in the region stretching from Visalia to Sacramento. The ideal candidate will focus reports about the implementation of the affordable care act, environmental health, obesity, diabetes and other health issues that impact the Latino community. This person will be expected to develop a network of sources, and be the first to break news in his/her beat.
Senior Editor , Everyday Health Inc. (via mediabistro.com)
Location: New York, NY
Medium: Online
Requirements: The Senior Editor will be responsible for supporting the editorial team in maintaining and updating the web site and other digital properties (mobile, video, etc.) related to its premiere pregnancy and parenting brand. He or she will regularly contribute to new projects, from concept through completion, and execute ongoing content/social media and other updates. The prospective candidate needs to have strong writing and editing skills, knowledge of the parenting/pregnancy space, experience in social media, be able to work on multiple projects at once, and meet strict deadlines.
6 Month Intern, Men’s Health
Location: Emmaus, PA
Status: Full-time Temporary
Requirements: The ideal candidate will possess a college degree in English, Communications, or Journalism, and an interest in writing about health topics and familiarity interpreting scientific studies.
Writer Editor, Department Of Health And Human Services, Food and Drug Administration
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Status: Full-Time
Qualifications: This position is located in the Office of External Relations (OER) Immediate Office. The position involves the preparation of the majority of the speeches and written materials for the Commissioner of Food and Drug. The issues are typically broad, complex, controversial and sensitive. The job requires information gathering, coordinating and negotiation with top Agency officials as well as other governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Health Care and Higher Education Reporter, Dayton Business Journal (via journalismjobs.com)
Location: Dayton, OH
Status: Full-time
Medium: Online/Print
Information: The Dayton Business Journal is seeking a reporter able to marry strong traditional journalism skills – source building, sharp interviewing techniques, strong analytical and investigative reporting skills, clear writing, document use – with online and social media know-how. Whatever the platform, reporters will produce content – original and curated – that is accompanied by perspective and context.
Reporter/Blogger, North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc
Location: Dallas, TX
Status: Full Time
Requirements: North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., the Dallas/Fort Worth NPR and PBS station, is hiring a full-time Reporter/Blogger to cover education and/or health, science and technology. The reporter will work in the KERA newsroom as a content creator with primary focus on radio and digital news. He/she will write and produce long-form and newscast-length radio reports, write blog posts, curate social media streams and create video and multimedia content.