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Featured Opportunity
Senior Editor for Healthcare Team, Vendome Group - Healthcare Design
About: Managing a healthy writing workload to produce content for the publication, its website, supplements, and other revenue-producing ventures. Researching and identifying major news and trends pertinent to our audience, and developing article ideas based on research; working with Editor-in-Chief to help develop editorial calendars and other strategic planning.
Location: Cleveland, OH
Medium: Magazine Publishing Online and Print
Status: Full-Time
New Job Listings
Staff Writer, Healthcare, Access Intelligence, LLC (via journalismjobs.com)
Location: Rockville, MD
Medium: Online/Print
Requirements: Access Intelligence, LLC is seeking a Staff Writer for our Dorland Health products. The Staff Writer will assist in the coordination of the editorial content, production workflow and in planning the content and layout of all of the Dorland Publications. Utilizing knowledge of industry and trends, competitive environment, and editorial vision, the Staff Writer will conduct research; copyedit and proofread manuscripts; and write columns, articles, product and literature sections, news, and miscellaneous copy.
Reporter, American Medical News
Location: Chicago, IL
Status: Full-time
Requirements: You will serve in Chicago as a reporter for the Professional Issues section of American Medical News, an award-winning print (250,000 circulation) and online news publication for physicians, published by the American Medical Association. This position primarily entails covering the physician work force, scope-of-practice issues, medical education, physician discipline and medical regulation trends.
Editor, Krames StayWell
Location: Evanston, IL
Status: Full-Time
Information: Krames StayWell, a leading custom health care publisher in the Chicagoland area and a division of MediMedia, seeks to add a professional Editor with a strong client focus.
Editor, ICF International, Public Health Division
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status: Full-time
Medium: Online/Print
Information: ICF seeks an Editor to support projects within the Atlanta, GA office. Primary responsibilities include editing and managing the production of written products for client reports and deliverables on multiple research and evaluation projects within the Health, Education and Social Programs Group. Products may include brief research reports, reports to Congress, final project reports, brochures, and Web site content.
Healthcare Reporter, WMFE- FM
Location: Orlando, FL
Status: Full Time
Requirements: 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.
Reporter, EdSource
Location: Oakland, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Requirements: EdSource Today, California’s only online site devoted solely to education journalism, is seeking an experienced and creative reporter with excellent writing skills. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to develop a unique “student wellness” beat focusing on student, school and community health issues. In developing this new beat, the reporter will examine issues such as research on the impact of health and wellness on student learning, obstacles facing the founding of school health centers new approaches to school nutrition, the challenges of providing mental health services on school sites, and school-based environmental health concerns.