Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Look here for a multitude of fellowships
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Job Listings
Multimedia Reporter/Producer, Kaiser Health News
Location: California
Status: Full-Time, One Year Term Position
Medium: Online/Print
Project Editor, Kaiser Health News
Location: California or Washington, DC
Status: Full-Time, One Year Term Position
Medium: Online/Print
Project Corespondent, Kaiser Health News
Location: California
Status: Full-Time, One Year Term Position
Medium: Online/Print
Project Reporter, Kaiser Health News
Location: California
Status: Full-Time, One Year Term Position
Medium: Online/Print
Healthcare Industry Report, Providence Business News
Location: Providence, RI
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online/Print
Writer/Editor, Vertical Health (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Montclair, NJ
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Healthcare Writer, e.Republic
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online
Healthcare Reporter, Ohio Newspaper
Location: Toldeo, OH
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Editor, The Catholic Health Association of the United States
Location: St Louis, MO
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Healthcare Reporter, The Bulletin
Location: Bend, OR
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Awards, Fellowships and Workshops
Investigative Grants, The George Polk Grants for Investigative Reporting
Information: The George Polk Investigative Grants are given to experienced reporters to pursue reporting projects relating to social justice. The intent is to promote public awareness of social problems in immigration, housing, welfare, health, employment and other areas and to promote investigative articles on the Web as well as in print.
Deadline: Rolling
Requirements: An applicant should have a proven track record as an investigative reporter and propose an article on a subject with which he or she is familiar. The program is intended as a resource for a reporter who always has wanted to dig into a particular topic or has developed useful expertise – who knows “where the bodies are buried” – in an area of social importance. Grants will range from $2500 to $10,000, depending on the duration and complexity of the project.
Health Data Journalism Workshop, The Association of Health Care Journalists
From the website: Journalists are invited to tap into health data in a special workshop coming this fall. This Association of Health Care Journalists workshop offers something for both data newcomers and veterans – from spreadsheet basics to visualizing data online. You’ll come away with skills and ideas on teasing stories out of datasets and tools on presenting these stories.
Dates: October 3, 2013 to October 4, 2013
Information: For more information, fill out and submit this form, or contact Christy Stretz at 573-884-5606 or Christy@healthjournalism.org.
AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance, The Association of Health Care Journalists
From the website: Yearlong program allowing journalists to pursue a significant reporting project related to the U.S. health care system. It can be local or national in scope, or a little of both — say an aspect of the Affordable Care Act playing out in your community or subject specialty, or the impact of particular evidence-based treatments on health outcomes, or an analysis of a health care organization’s performance, using public data sets. Fellows pursue the projects with the support of their newsrooms or freelance outlets, which commit to publish or air the work.
Deadline: November 4, 2013
Information: The fellowship covers the cost of attending the seminars and AHCJ conferences, and a project allowance is available to defray the cost of field reporting, health data analysis and other project-related research. In addition, each fellow will receive a $2,500 fellowship award upon the successful completion of the project.
The Alicia Patterson Fellowship, Alicia Patterson Foundation
From the website: The Alicia Patterson fellowships are open only to U.S. citizens who are fulltime print journalists, or to non-U.S. citizens who work fulltime for U.S. print publications, either in America or abroad. The aim of the trustees who established the foundation was to improve the quality of U.S. print journalism.
Deadline: October 1, 2013
Information: The fellowship stipend is $40,000 for twelve months and $20,000 for six months and must cover your travel and research costs. You also must pay taxes on this income, which most fellows do by submitting quarterly payments to the IRS, as many freelancers do.
Health & Criminal Justice Journalism Fellowship, The Center on Media, Crime and Justice
From the website: The Center on Media, Crime & Justice (CMCJ) at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice is organizing a unique fellowship program for journalists specializing in health care, criminal justice and related beats. The fellowship will give journalists an opportunity to explore in depth the health care challenges facing justice-involved populations and to examine the implications of the Affordable Care Act for these populations, their families and communities.
Deadline: September 9th, 2013, 11:59 pm ET
Requirements: The John Jay/Langeloth Reporting Fellowship will pay for selected reporters, columnists and editors to attend a two-day conference, “Health Behind Bars: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the US Justice System (and How to Report it)” in New York City on October 21-22, 2013. The conference will include meetings with leading policymakers and researchers, a field reporting visit, and skills assistance in developing and interpreting data and other resources. The fellowship also includes participation in a year-long online program aimed at developing a network of resources that can sustain and inform further reporting.
Call for Proposals on Global Health, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
From the website: We are seeking ambitious, enterprise reporting projects on global health and the future of the global development agenda. We are maintaining our ongoing interest in reproductive health, food security, sanitation, and HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. We are also looking for proposals that surface new or neglected issues and perspectives in global health.
Deadline: Rolling
Requirements: Proposals must include a credible plan for broad distribution of the resulting work. Applicants should demonstrate interest from editors or producers working in wide-reaching U.S. or European news media outlets. Letters from editors or producers who have worked with you in the past, and are interested in working with you again, are encouraged.