Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Medical Institutes, Newspapers and More

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Featured Opportunity

The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, USC Annenberg School of Journalism                                                              
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Dates: Feb. 23-27, 2014 
Description: The launch of Obamacare is likely to be one of the biggest stories for California news media in the coming year. We'd like to help you figure out how to tell it. For eight years, The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program at USC's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism has been providing all-expenses-paid mini fellowships to help journalists understand how to cover complex health issues in a way that engages their audiences.

Job Listings

Healthcare Editor, TriMed Media Group
Location: Providence, RI
Status: Full-Time and Part-Time available
Medium: Online

Senior Health Editor, Healthgrades
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online

Health and Education Beat Writer, Kentucky New Era
Location: Hopkinsville, KY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online

Digital Reporter/Editor - Science Desk, NPR
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Blogs

Health Editor, WiserTogether
Location: Washington, D.C. also open to candidates in Los Angeles or New York
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

Medical Researcher/Writer, WiserTogether
Location: Washington, D.C. 
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

Supervising Health Editor, NBC News Digital                                           
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online

Associate Editor HealthBeat, CQ Roll Call                                                
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

Senior Science Writer-Donor Relations, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute                                                  
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

Health Reporter, California Health Report                                                      
Location: All cities, California
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online/Print

Science Writer, University of Florida                                                   
Location: Gainesville, FL
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print

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

Editor, The Catholic Health Association of the United States
Location: St. Louis, MO
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online

Awards, Fellowships and Workshops

Kiplinger Fellowship, The Kiplinger Foundation
From the website: The Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism offers short-term fellowships to help make better use of new online tools and channels. Thanks to the generous support of the Kiplinger Foundation, the training will be offered free of charge. In addition, the fellowship covers lodging, most meals and includes a travel stipend. The 2014 fellowship runs from Sunday, April 6, through Friday, April 11.
Deadline: November 30th, 2013
Requirements: To apply, journalists must have five or more years of experience at a news organization. All fellowship sessions are conducted in English without translators.

Nieman Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
From the website: The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard offers short-term visiting fellowships to individuals interested in working on special research projects designed to advance journalism.
Deadline: November 8th, 2013
Requirements: Applicants need not be practicing journalists, but must demonstrate the ways in which their work at Harvard and the Nieman Foundation may improve the prospects for journalism’s future. This may be related to research, programming, design, financial strategies or another topic. U.S. and international applicants are welcome.

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.

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.

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.