Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Topic leader position open at Association of Health Care Journalists
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Topic leader: Social determinants of health, Association of Health Care Journalists
About: The Association of Health Care Journalists seeks freelance assistance in maintaining and building helpful and dynamic web resources for fellow journalists covering issues surrounding social determinants of health. This year-to-year commitment would include writing blog posts, tip sheets for journalists, summarizing key issues, webcasting short interviews with top experts, and identifying good story examples and important dates for journalists. This writer would work with AHCJ's Web editor to encourage reader interaction and should be willing to share knowledge at AHCJ events. Experience in covering the topic is a must. Multimedia experience, especially writing for the Web, is a plus.
Location: Romote freelance position
Medium: Internet/Online
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Deadline: April 10, 2013
From the website: The National Health Journalism Fellowships program offers journalists an opportunity to explore the intersection between community health, health policy and the nation's growing diversity during a five days of intensive, all-expenses-paid training in Los Angeles. Reporting projects are supported with a $2,000 grant to each Fellowship recipient.
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Deadline: April 10, 2013
From the website: The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism provides grants of up to $10,000 for reporting on critical health issues facing underserved communities. Hunt grantees also take part in the all-expenses-paid 5-day National Health Journalism Fellowship, July 14-18 in Los Angeles.
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Deadline: April 15, 2013
Eligibility: Applicants must have at least three years of professional journalism experience and submit a full fellowship application. Recipients must attend meetings at The Carter Center in September at the beginning and end of the fellowship year.