Seminar - Healthy Journalism: challenges and solutions
20 April 2010, 6pm, Wellcome Trust, London.

This PiF seminar, held in conjunction with The Wellcome Trust, looked at health journalism and explored the challenges and solutions involved in producing information for the public. The seminar was aimed at journalists, journalism students and press officers and aimed to:

    * Understand the challenges facing healthcare journalists
    * Gain deeper understanding of what constitutes evidence
    * Identify ways to avoid misreporting
    * Meet up to share and learn from each other’s experiences

This seminar was kindly supported and hosted by The Wellcome Trust. 

Presentations (click on the name of the presenter to see the powerpoint slides.  A password is not required - please click 'READ ONLY' to access the presentation)

• Mark Duman, President, Patient Information Forum
  Welcome, introductions & scene-setting
• Jacqui Thornton, Former Health Editor, The Sun and Lecturer in Journalism, University of Winchester
  The Challenges - healthcare reporting in the new media age
• Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor PLoS Medicine, Public Library of Science
  The Solutions - how scientists can help journalists
• Andrew Booth, Director of Information & Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
  Evidence: understanding it and reporting it     
• Martin Ledwick, Head of Cancer Information Nurses, Cancer Research UK
  What’s the impact of this on patients?
• Mark Duman, President, Patient Information Forum
  Closing Remarks

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Click here to read a summary of the event

 

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