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Health and Medicine Guide: Reporting About Safety
Investigative reporters need a systematic understanding of drug development and testing, including a review of the related literature and data.
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Investigating Health and Medicine
This guide to reporting on health and medicine issues was originally published in November 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Original authors Serena Tinari and Catherine Riva have updated it as of November 2024, to include a revised introduction, additional insights throughout including lessons learned from covering the coronavirus outbreak, and a new […]
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Health and Medicine Guide: Preface & Introduction
Combining the methods and standards of muckraking and Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) can be highly effective.
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Health and Medicine Guide: A Study Is Not Just a Study
In order to work as an investigative journalist in health and medicine, remember that flaws in scientific methodology often indicate that further digging is needed.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Tips on Traps, Hype & Ethics
Although in parts of the world investigating pharmaceuticals can be physically dangerous, in others you risk your reputation rather than your life.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Regulating Drugs — Development & Approval
If your story is about drugs, it is essential to delve into their development and approval history.
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Health and Medicine Guide: Appendix
Glossary of Terms, Regulatory Agencies, and Bibliography.
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Health and Medicine Guide: COVID-19
This guide will provide reporters with the basic knowledge they need to dig deeper into many aspects of COVID-19 and other public health issues.
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Health and Medicine Guide: The Scientific Basis of Influence
One of the first things you learn as an investigative reporter is to beware of unconscious biases, including what is known as “anchoring” or “cognitive tunneling.”
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GIJN Africa: Funding and Grants
Nonprofit organizations dedicated to offering grants in support of investigative journalism in Africa.