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1. October 25, 2012 05:15 PM

   Junkets masquerading as prizes

   To avoid conflicts of interest, read the fine print

   By Curtis Brainard

   With dwindling support for travel in most newsrooms, journalists may be tempted to apply for one of the many prizes or programs that offer the chance to get out of the office and visit a new destination—but buyer beware. The Knight Science Journalism Tracker’s Paul Raeburn wrote a series of three posts about the risks associated with some of these...

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2. April 19, 2012 07:04 PM

   Online News Startups Struggle to Break Even in Western Europe

   A viable business model remains as elusive overseas as it is in the U.S.

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Last year, in a research project titled “The Business of Digital Journalism,” the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism set out to find digital news outlets that were successfully making money on their own: without being bankrolled by institutional grants or other investors, and without being propped up by profits from a legacy, print-based counterpart. With the exception of big-name...

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3. October 26, 2012 02:50 PM

   The universality of health reporting

   Lessons from five European journalists

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Last week 112 journalists and academics from 12 countries met in Athens to talk about health reporting—the nitty-gritty of engaging audiences, building networks of honest sources, dealing with the conflicts of interest that are so pervasive in the medical business, and, of course, following the money. In the US, we like to say all healthcare, like all politics, is local....

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