Journalist’s Trade

Health journalists need and want special training.

Reporters confront significant barriers, imposed by governments, editors and their own experiences, to accurately portray this health crisis.

‘Medical experts are not willing to release the information to the media because they fear rebuttal from government authorities….’

By photographing this disease’s devastation, James Nachtwey appeals ‘to stop the madness, lend a hand, restore humanity.’

‘The worst global pandemic since the Black Death of the Middle Ages receives less media attention than a World Cup soccer match.’

A veteran journalist looks at other wars to help journalists understand the value of this reporting and how best to cover them.

‘We’re going to have to do as careful and as in-depth reporting as anyone’s ever done, because this is dynamite.’

Hindered by its secrecy culture, Irish journalists were helped by dogged reporting from Britain.

The Boston Globe looks worldwide at the result of scant health care.

‘… most reporters are constrained to do less than full-time work on a beat that demands more than full-time competence.’