Health Media Jobs & Opportunities: Kaiser Health News, Men's Health and The Bulletin all are hiring
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Professional Development Opportunity
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
Assistant Editor, Men's Health
Location: Emmaus, PA
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 and General Interest Reporter, Diabolo Custom Publishing (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print
Health Reporter, The Bulletin
Location: Bend, Oregon
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print
Editor, Vendome Healthcare Media Group
Location: Cleveland, OH
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print
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 Journalist - Science, Health & Technology, Circa, LLC
Location: Arlington, VA
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Broadcast
Health Reporter, Business Insider
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online
Science & Health Reporter, IBTimes.com
Location: United States
Status: Full-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
Public Health Writer/Editor, Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
Location: Rockville, MD
Status: Full-Time
Job Type: Online/Print
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