[ecrea] Health in the Headlines - European conference on Health Journalism

Health in the Headlines

European conference on Health Journalism
Coventry University, England
June 23-24 2011
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor, Columbia Journalism Review
John Lister, Senior Lecturer in Health Journalism, Coventry University
Afroditi Veloudaki, Director of EU HeaRT Health Reporter Training project
Gary Schwitzer, publisher of HealthNewsReview.org
Gianluca Bruttomesso, Unamsi, the National Union of Italian Medical Writers
Charlie Ornstein, President, Association of Health Care Journalists
Esther Paniagua, Spanish National Association of Health Informers
Fran=E7oise Clouzeau, National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence,
(NICE) UK
John Illman, President Medical Journalists Association
Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor, Reuters Health
Donnacha De Long, President, National Union of Journalists
Connie St Louis, Senior Lecturer in Scientific Journalism, City University,
London
Professional journalists, professional organisations, educators, and
interested academics and students from
at least 10 countries will be getting together for two days at Coventry
University, England, to discuss and
debate issues including:
* Raising standards in Health Journalism
* The state of Health Journalism in European countries
* The role of NICE on a world scale
* Critical health reporting =AD the fight to achieve balance, accuracy and
completeness, and the battle against PR spin
* The impact of media images and stereotypes
* Reporting complex health reforms
* Investigative health reporting
* Best practices in blogging and social media
* Case studies
Organised by Coventry University, the conference draws on the expertise of
the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Medical Journalists
Association, and the EU-funded HeaRT project on the training of health
journalists in Europe.
It is supported by the National Union of Journalists.
With a top line-up of speakers from Europe and the US, it offers a rich
resource in terms of information, guidance and potential stories.
Journalists and academics who participate will get a unique chance to
network, discuss, compare and
evaluate their work with colleagues in other countries.
Costs have been deliberately kept low to encourage freelance and
professional journalists and students of
journalism to attend.
Full details and online registration from www.europeanhealthjournalism.com


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