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Keeping it chronic
Local coverage explores ways to keep ‘super-users’ out of the hospital, driving costs down and outcomes up
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont May 2, 2013 at 03:10 PM
The emergency department (ED) is not only the most inappropriate and expensive place to deliver primary healthcare, it's a gateway... More
On Plan B: a Dart for Dr. Manny
A physician toes the party line on emergency contraceptives, and science takes a hit
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Apr 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Leave it to Fox News Channel's Dr. Manny (Alvarez) to scare the audience away from open and honest discussion... More
Doctors and nurse practitioners: beyond the turf wars
Research shows nurse practitioners are as good as MDs at primary care, where there is a big shortage. But who knows about it?
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Apr 4, 2013 at 03:00 PM
A few days ago, I got an email asking me to sign a petition on the White House website, urging... More
Hiking America’s food deserts
The Food Police (part 2): Tools for adding context to stories about the soda-ban battle, and other tales of nutrition
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Mar 22, 2013 at 02:57 PM
This is the second installment in an occasional series that will examine media coverage of public initiatives aimed at... More
Progress with pertussis: Is it goodbye?
In the sequestration era, reporters need to stay on the whooping cough story
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Mar 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In a recent piece for msnbc.com, Geoffrey Cowley paints a dark picture of the impact sequestration cuts will have on... More
Policing the food police (part 1):
the assault on salt
Covering government efforts to improve the nation’s eating habits is more complicated than it seems
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 28, 2013 at 12:11 PM
This is the first installment in an occasional series that will examine media coverage of public initiatives aimed at ending... More
Caveat emptor: You’re on your own with those vitamins
In absence of oversight, journalists should warn consumers of risks as well as benefits
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The popular health story of the past week, picked up from ABC News to Yahoo and across the gamut of... More
Here comes the National Nurse (maybe)
A new bill seeks to elevate nursing, which could lift healthcare. Reporters might take note
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM
A few days ago, the unlikely congressional team of Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, and Peter King,... More
Can mental healthcare curb gun violence?
Some strong coverage takes a good look at that question, and reflects a shift in how we discuss mental illness
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Feb 1, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In another lifetime, I did PR for Big Pharma and flacked for some of the biggest names in academic medicine... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
