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8 Dec

Finally, help for science journalists

<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><img align="left" alt="Peter Calamai" border="0" height="91" hspace="5" src="http://www.journalismproject.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/images/content_images/Peter_C.jpg" title="Peter Calamai" width="73" />When it comes to science stories, overworked reporters often resort to rounding up quotes from duelling experts, writes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peter Calamai</span>.

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9 Nov

Is the media going overboard with H1N1 coverage? The National hosts a panel

Wendy Mesley recently hosted a panel discussion on The National about how the media handled coverage of H1N1. The two panelists were Dr. Allison McGeer, a microbiologist and infectious disease […]

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29 Oct

Pregnant women, pandemics and politics

Susan Delacourt from the Toronto Star covers a bizarre bout of heckling and laughter Tuesday in the House of Commons as Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett (a physician and former public health minister) […]

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28 Oct

Nieman guide to covering pandemic flu launched

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has launched a “comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.” The new website, Covering Pandemic Flu, is aimed specifically at journalists. The foundation […]

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20 Oct

UBC Conference on health and environment

Registration closes Oct. 23 for a Nov. 6 science journalism conference in Vancouver. Health and Environment Reporting in a Connected World is a day-long event at the University of British […]

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15 Sep

Washing hands of H1N1: tracking the institutional response

As students flood hallways once again, the looming spectre of an influenza H1N1 outbreak is making institutions think twice about a stalwart measure of student accountability this semester – the doctor’s note. Recommendations for […]

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9 Jun

Some day, you’ll cover a health crisis

By Karen PalmerI was in Arkansas in April when CNN began stepping up its coverage of reports of swine flu trickling across the Mexico-U.S. border. I was spending a long […]

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9 Jun

What do you mean by “pandemic”?

As N1H1 influenza continues to spread, Lawrence Altman provides a good backgrounder in The New York Times about what “pandemic” means. The article illustrates the challenge of using medical terminology that presumes the […]

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7 May

Internet “most useful” source for swine flu info

People followed the swine flu story closely last week. Although most “learned something” about the flu from local TV news and, to a lesser extent, cable news, the Internet came out […]

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4 May

Of lipstick on pigs

Should journalists participate in the rebranding of swine flu? “It is not a ‘swine’ flu, and people need to stop calling it that,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Producers […]

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