Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Push Health Public Policy

December 2, 2011

If health policy is your passion, pursue a career in health media advocacy with the Berkeley Media Studies Group. Also listed are various reporter and editor positions at health organizations in the Midwest and East Coast.

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Featured Listing

Strategic Communications Specialist, Berkeley Media Studies Group (via submission)
Location:Berkeley, CA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Other

"BMSG is committed to helping public health professionals and community advocates engage the news media strategically to advance healthy public policies. The strategic communications specialist will help to advance the field of media advocacy by co-authoring BMSG publications and providing tailored technical assistance to support advocates in developing and carrying out their media advocacy plans. As part of the BMSG training team, they will develop and conduct media advocacy trainings for BMSG clients. Our clients work on public health policy issues including violence prevention, nutrition and physical activity, tobacco control, reproductive health and other issues."

 

New Job and Internship Listings

Reporter, Modern Healthcare, Crain Communications (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Nashville, TN
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online

Senior Editor, HealthLeaders Media, a division of HCPro (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Danvers, MA (or telecommute)
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online

Staff Editor, Online Healthcare News, American Osteopathic Association (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Chicago, IL
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

Science & Health Journalists, Tech Media Network (via mediabistro)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

 

Prizes

2011 Hillman Prizes, The Hillman Foundation
Eligibility: Work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2010.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
From the Website: "Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in the public interest. Our six categories will include books (non-fiction), reporting in newspaper, magazine, and blogs, film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), and photojournalism. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the U.S."