Articles

Reporting the Cloning Story: From Hype to Healthy Skepticism

Journalists can produce stronger stories by scrutinizing the motives, finances and personalities of researchers.
June 15, 2003
Aaron Zitner

Mental Illness: Reporting on Maine’s Most Vulnerable Children

Doctors and social workers said she’d ‘never be able to tell the story.’ She did.
June 15, 2003
Barbara Walsh

Investigating What Goes Wrong in Medicine

After 30 years of doing this, a reporter passes along lessons—some serious, some not so serious.
June 15, 2003
Paul Lieberman

Acting as Watchdog on Cancer Research

A small newsletter can create big waves with its long and complicated stories.
June 15, 2003
Paul Goldberg

A Lengthy Legal Battle to Gain Access to Public Documents

A Delaware newspaper tries to obtain data about the state’s criminal justice system.
June 15, 2003
Deborah Henley

Breaking the Medical Malpractice Code of Secrecy

At The Burlington Free Press, a reporter persists in unearthing stories that doctors don’t want told.
June 15, 2003
Stephen Kiernan

Keeping an Eye on Thailand’s Press

A media column tracks coverage and commentary about the war in Iraq.
June 15, 2003
Songpol Kaopatumtip

Photographer Gordon Parks Turns 90

‘Gordon is our lamplighter, and I love him for that.’
June 15, 2003
Lester Sloan

Learning To Be a Medical Journalist

‘If you already are a skilled reporter and writer, the transition to medical journalism should be relatively easy.’
June 15, 2003
Thomas Linden

Televised War Coverage in Namibia

‘It is evident that objective journalism has been lost in the “us” and “them” scenario ….’
June 15, 2003
Gwen Lister