Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Join the Kaiser Health News team

Apply now for the 2016 National Health Journalism Fellowship at USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism, the publisher of this website.  We'll bring you to Los Angeles for July 17-21 for 4 1/2 days of workshops, seminars and field trips and send you home with a $2,000-$10,000 reporting grant to underwrite reporting on community health, child health; welfare and well-being; or health care reform. Click here for details.

 

Job Listings

Reporter - Health Policy & Politics, Kaiser Health News
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Project Editor - Health Policy & Politics, Kaiser Health News
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Business of Healthcare Reporter, The Dallas Morning News
Location: Dallas, TX
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Assocciate Editor - Health Affairs, Project HOPE
Location: Bethesda, MD
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Senior Healthcare Editor, Health Services Advisory Group
Location: Tampa, FL
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Multimedia Health News Editor, WUSF Public Media
Location: Tampa, FL
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online

Multimedia Journalist - Science, Health & Technology, Circa, LLC
Location: Arlington, VA
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Broadcast

Health and Medicine Editor, The Conversation US (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Health Reporter, Business Insider
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online

Sr. Health Editor, WebMD
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online

Science & Health Reporter, IBTimes.com
Location: United States
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online

Consumer Health Reporter, Bloomberg (via mediabistro.com)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Health Freelance Content Writer/Editor, About.com (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Unspecified
Status: Part-Time 
Job Type: Online

Health Reporter, Salt Lake Tribune
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online/Print

Reporter, Health & Science Desk, WHHY - The Pulse
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Online

Senior Editor - Healthcare Beat, Industry Drive
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Digita Media

Senior Editor, Health Dialog
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online

Deputy Senior Supervising Editor, Science and Food, Science Desk, NPR
Location: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-Time 
Job Type: Broadcast

Healthcare Writer, Targetbase
Location: Irving, TX
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print

Public Health Writer/Editor, Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
Location: Rockville, MD
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print

Healthcare Reporter, BioPharm Insight
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online

Community Editor, Center for Health Journalism
Location: Alhambra, CA
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online

Fellowships

Journalism Fellowship, International Center for Journalists
Information: The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Malaria No More have created a new program called “Covering Malaria Elimination in Africa: A Fellowship for U.S. Journalists.” The program will give seven U.S. journalists the opportunity to travel to Tanzania for a five-day study tour. Journalists will come away with a deeper understanding of what strategies have led to the progress on malaria, and what it will take to end the disease for good. Journalists should be working for a print, online and/or broadcast news outlet in one of the following capacities: based in the United States and working full time for a local or international news outlet; working as a foreign correspondent for a U.S. outlet; or working as a freelancer who publishes in U.S. outlets
Deadline: March 14, 2016

 Jacque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship, Radio Television Digital News Foundation
Information: This award was created to honor former news director and Medstar executive Jacque Minnotte, who died in 1993. One $2,000 award will be presented to an outstanding audio, video, or digital/multimedia health reporter with fewer than 10 years’ journalism experience. Applicants can find out more and apply online at RTDNA’s website here. Winners of the Jacque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship are invited to attend the Excellence in Journalism conference. 
Deadline: May 31, 2016