<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>.
READ MOREWendy 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 […]
READ MORESusan 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) […]
READ MOREThe 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 […]
READ MORERegistration 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 […]
READ MOREAs 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 […]
READ MOREBy 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 […]
READ MOREAs 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 […]
READ MOREPeople 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 […]
READ MOREShould 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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