Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Track the Health Industry
Follow trends and developments in the health care market as a reporter with Kaiser Health News. In addition, freelance health reporters are wanted throughout the California region. Plus, check out upcoming deadlines for health care reporting awards being distributed by various journalism organizations.
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Featured Listing
Reporter, Business of Health Care, Kaiser Health News
Location: Washington, DC
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online
"Position Summary: The reporter will track developments in the marketplace affecting the delivery, cost and availability of health care, including strategies of insurers, hospitals and other health system players. Examples of story-worthy topics include consolidation and integration within and between the insurance and health industries; the impact of the federal health law on their business decisions and the effects of those decisions on consumers. For guidance, candidates should review on kaiserhealthnews.org what KHN staff have written on these subjects. In addition, the reporter will work closely with KHN editors on a collaboration with NPR member stations producing state-based health policy stories and will write national stories about health care developments."
New Job and Internship Listings
Newsletter Writer/Editor, Fogarty International Center/National Institutes of Health (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online
Freelance Health Reporters, California Health Report (via JournalismJobs)
Location: San Diego, Bakersfield and Coachella, CA
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online
Health Freelance Feature Writer, NewsBios.com (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Denver, CO
Status: Commission/Contract
Medium: Online
Fellowships and Grants
The Lab at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Investigative Journalist Fellowship, Harvard University
Eligibility: The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years of investigative reporting experience, though those with less experience will be considered.
Deadline: February 1, 2012
From the Website: "Launched in 2010, the Lab is a five-year research project to study the phenomenon of 'institutional corruption.' 'Institutional corruption' refers not to bribery, or other familiar violations of law or ethics. It refers instead to influences within an economy of influence that tend to (1) weaken the effectiveness of an institution, especially by (2) weakening public trust of the institution. The institutions within which the Lab is exploring these phenomena include any significant public institution that depends for its success in part at least upon a substantial level of public trust. Such institutions can be either public or private, and if private, then either for-profit or not-for-profit. They include among others the academy, public health institutions, the financial services industry, the elected state judiciary, media (public and private), and Congress."
Awards
Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, Association of Health Care Journalists
Eligibility: All entries must have been published or broadcast for the first time during the 2011 calendar year.
Deadline: For the early-bird rates ($30 members, $55 nonmembers), entries must be received by Jan. 3, 2012. Regular-rate entries ($50 members, $75 nonmembers) must be received no later than Feb. 3, 2012.
From the Website: "Entries can include a wide range of health coverage including public health, consumer health, medical research, the business of health care and health ethics. The new topic categories are Business, Investigative, Consumer/Feature, Public Health and Health Policy."
The Reporting Award, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Eligibility: Excludes NYU affiliates, recent NYU graduates and journalists employed by established media outlets.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
From the Website: "The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University is now accepting applications for The Reporting Award of 2012 for a significant work of journalism in any medium on an under-reported topic in the public interest."
Health Care Research and Journalism Awards, NIHCM Foundation
Eligibility: Entries must originally have been published or aired in 2011. Additional eligibility guidelines specific to award categories can be found on the website.
Deadline: February 12, 2012
From the Website: "Advances in health policy find their foundation in academic research and are achieved through public discourse facilitated by the media. To recognize the critical role both the research and journalism communities play in the health care system, each year NIHCM Foundation presents awards for outstanding work in health care research and journalism."
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."