Insights

<p>After Walmart furiously backpedaled on a story about its ambitious plans to expand into basic health care, the journalists who got the scoop had some reporting to do. Here is what they learned.</p>

<p>HIPAA privacy rules often scare health professionals away from blogging and social media. But three nurse-bloggers at BlogWorld LA last week said they can converse online about their careers without fear by following these common-sense guidelines.</p>

<p>The National Center for Learning Disabilities is recruiting a professional with social media savvy and an interest in grassroots movements to manage its education and advocacy programs. Also, there are still a few days left to apply for a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism.</p>

<p>On Veterans Day, think for a minute about three basic liberties we all should be allowed: freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and freedom from malicious prosecution. Hospital whistleblower Charles Rehberg had those rights taken away.</p>

<p>Veterans encounter delays in mental health treatment, health reform questions facing the U.S. Supreme Court and public health worries over Occupy Wall Street, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>Rick Perry's memory lapse, artificial heart success, and smacking stores selling cigs to kids, plus more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>fals--></p><p>On World Neuroendocrine Tumor Awareness Day, Mitchell Berger shares his own experience with this rare type of cancer and examines what the media got wrong in reporting on Steve Jobs' death.</p>

<p>California kids are slightly less likely to be overweight than they were five years ago.</p>

<p>Anti-drug videos create buzz (no, not that kind), the case for banning sweet drinks in schools and more from our Daily Briefing.</p>

<p>At first it seemed pretty improbable. How could six, seven, eight different ethnic media outlets work together on one health story? What one issue would be compelling enough to interest them? Journalist Richard Kipling examines how the Home Alone project came together.</p>