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<p>As always, you can find job, internship, awards and fellowship opportunities <a href="#jobs">at the end of this post</a>.</p>

<p>Now that you have established your target, walk up to the door and knock.</p> <p>This is the step that even some veteran investigative reporters like to avoid until the very end. How can you let a subject know that you are investigating them? Won’t they start shredding records, threatening potential whistleblowers, putting cameras in the parking lot to capture you talking to patients?</p> <p>They may do all those things. But here are three good reasons to talk to your subjects early.</p>

<p><img src="http://media.scpr.org/images/bio/2010/02/26/small.jpg&quot; alt="Julie Small/SCPR" width="100" height="128" style="float: left; margin: 10px;" /></p> <p><strong>Prison Health Care: Live Conversation with Julie Small</strong><br /><strong>Thursday, August 26</strong></p>

<p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> In our <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat TODAY at 11 a.m. PST</a>., get tips on covering prison health from KPCC’s Julie Small, whose <a href="http://www.scpr.org/specials/prisonmedical/"&gt;“Prison Affliction” investigation</a> has been airing this week.</p>

<p><!--[endif]--></p> <p>Here's what we're reading and listening to today:</p> <p><strong>Prison Health:</strong> KPCC‘s Julie Small talks <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/qa-kpccs-julie-small-investigating-prison-health-care">about how she reported her “Prison Affliction”</a> series airing this week. Please join us for ReportingonHealth’s <a href="../../../../../../../../blogs/reporting-prison-health-care-live-chat-kpccs-julie-small">online chat with Julie</a> Thursday at 11 a.m. PST.</p>

<p><span>Years ago, while working on a street&nbsp;outreach program feeding the&nbsp;homeless, I observed that virtually every one of our clients was a smoker. (In fact, researchers now&nbsp;estimate that about 94% of the North American homeless population&nbsp;smoke).

<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Speed_Limit_60…; width="100" height="128" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" /></p><p>At what age is a woman no longer at risk with a doctor who has been disciplined for “inappropriate conduct” with female patients?</p><p>The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners sets the age limit at 60.</p>

<p>Prison health care in California costs about $2.5 billion per year, but the quality of that care has been so abysmal over the years that a federal judge in 2002 forced California to give up control of its prison health services to <a href="http://www.cphcs.ca.gov/">a federal receiver</a>. Eight y

<p><em>In response to </em><em><a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/so-you-want-write-book">CareerGP… So you want to write a book?</a></em></p>