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Medical Reporting In a Highly Commercialized Environment

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

The Emotional Toll of Reporting on a Cancer Trial

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

‘Living With Cancer’

A newspaper links forces with TV and radio to inform the community about the causes and consequences of this disease.

Investigating What Goes Wrong in Medicine

After 30 years of doing this, a reporter passes along lessons—some serious, some not so serious.

Learning To Be a Medical Journalist

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

Blogging the War Away

A media critic wages his own media war against the coverage of the war.

Summer 2003: Words & Reflections Introduction

Is it possible for truth to exist in journalism? This question resides at the core of “The Press Effect: Politicians and the Stories That Shape the Political World,” a book…

‘Small Pieces Loosely Joined’

Part of the problem with AOL Time Warner’s failure to capitalize on the Internet might be a basic misperception of what kind of medium the Internet is. Like all the…

Challenging the Charge of Liberal Bias in the Media

An editor’s response: Understand our biases, act as journalists, be a watchdog of the powerful.

In War, Journalists Become Part of the Problem

‘It was horrifying, confusing, numbing and nothing like the myth I had been peddled.’