Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Nonprofit, newspaper and magazine positions available
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Job Listings
Senior Editor, HealthyWomen.org
Location: Opportunity for telecommuting
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Health and Healthcare Bloggers, Levick Communications
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Freelance
Medium: Print/Online
Healthcare Business Reporter, DecisionHealth
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Associate Fitness Editor, Women's Health (via mediabistro.com)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Health & Fitness Editor, Men's Journal (via mediabistro.com)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Health Copywriter, Agora, Inc. (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Health Editor, Demand Media Studios (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Public Information Officer, Department of Public Health
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Print/Online
Graduate School Health Care Research & Consulting Intern, The Advisory Board Company
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Part-Time, June-August 2014
Medium: Print/Online
Senior Medical Editor, Entree Health
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Associate Editor, Men's Health
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Health Reporter, The Tampa Tribune
Location: Tampa, FL
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Health Economics Writer, Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Health Editor, WiserTogether
Location: Washington, D.C. also open to candidates in Los Angeles or New York
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Awards, Fellowships and Workshops
Social Justice Reporting for a Global America Program, Ford Foundation
From the website: Through the fellowship, U.S.-based journalists gain foreign reporting experience and an opportunity to cover important international social justice issues around the world.
Deadline: February 3rd, 2014
Requirements: Selected journalists attend a week-long orientation at ICFJ’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., from June 1-June 7 2014, where they will fine-tune their reporting projects and will gain new reporting skills to work overseas.
Nieman-Berkman Fellowship for Journalism Innovation, Harvard University
From the website: Nieman Fellowships are awarded to print, broadcast and online reporters, editors, photographers, producers, columnists, filmmakers and cartoonists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media.
Deadline: January 31st, 2014
Requirements: Applicants must be full-time journalists (including freelancers) with at least five years’ experience. Most, if not all of your samples should have been published or broadast between Jan. 1, 2013 and Jan. 30, 2014.
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.