Journalist’s Trade

‘Without, say, the imprimatur of The New York Times, a blogger has only his or her reputation to recommend the work ….’

The late Victor Cohn, a former science editor of The Washington Post, said: “A good medical reporter is, first of all, a reporter after a story, not just a medical…

A photographer documents the transition from medical student to physician.

As she moves between being a doctor and a medical journalist, loyalties are divided.

Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. As one of the nation’s first master’s programs in medical journalism, the…

A family doctor prescribes eight guiding principles for accurate and fair coverage of research findings.

For a variety of reasons, neither the government nor the press handled the medical crisis well.

‘I’d essentially planned to do a story about dying people with no real hope of a cure acting as guinea pigs.’

A journalist reminds us about how tricky putting ‘facts’ into perspective can be.

A medical editor’s book provides advice and guidance for journalists.