With the ongoing changes in the news media and the launch of the Foundation's new non-profit news service, Kaiser Health News, the Foundation has redesigned its journalism training and education programs. Any questions about the programs should be addressed to Penny Duckham, the Executive Director of the Fellowships Program.
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Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health — Starting in 2011, the fellowship program provides in-depth briefings and week-long site visits focused on complex health policy issues. These are for invited health and health policy journalists, with invitations tailored to the topics and issues addressed. Visit this page for information on the most current site visits. Prior to 2011, in addition to site visits and briefings, the Media Fellows program provided a group of up to ten selected journalists with a fellowship of several months to undertake individual health policy reporting projects. Visit this page for information about the 2000-2009/2010 Media Fellows and their projects, and links to some of the reporting completed under the program.
The Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting — for early career U.S. journalists interested in specializing in health reporting, provides an intensive introduction and practical experience reporting on health issues based at newsrooms across the U.S. The application deadline for the 2013 program has passed. Click here to see a list of the 2013 host news organizations.
Kaiser projects on Global Health Reporting — Starting in 2010, the Kaiser Foundation has launched new projects focused on U.S. global health policy reporting and coverage by U.S. news organizations.
Taking the Temperature: The Future of Global Health Journalism, a review of U.S. global health coverage, including the constraints, shifts in coverage, and potential reporting opportunities for U.S. journalists and news organizations, was published in February 2011. The report is based on interviews with 50 senior U.S. editors, reporters and others engaged in global health coverage. A summary note of a follow-up discussion is also available.
Kaiser/GlobalPost Partnership and Global Health Reporting Fellowships:
In 2011, the Foundation began a new partnership with
GlobalPost, an online news site focused on international coverage, to help
support original reporting on global health policy issues. As part of the
partnership, the Foundation is sponsoring the work of three Kaiser/GlobalPost
Global Health Reporting Fellows.The
Fellows complete paid internships in the U.S. and abroad. The three fellows are
chosen by GlobalPost and the Foundation from students and/or recent graduates
of the Columbia Journalism School. The 2012 Fellows are Juliana Schatz, Tracy
Jarrett, and Emily Judem.
In the lead up to the XIX International AIDS Conference,
which will be held in Washington DC in 2012, GlobalPost will concentrate its
global health coverage on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Kaiser/GlobalPost Global
Health Reporting Fellows will contribute to the HIV/AIDS coverage, including
reporting from the international conference. In 2011, GlobalPost focused on the
Global Health Initiative, a U.S.-based effort aimed at organizing the many
government structures, programs, and funding streams engaged in global health.
View stories from the "Healing
the World" project here.
Global Health Challenges facing Policymakers and Journalists: The Foundation, in conjunction with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and GlobalPost, held an evening discussion on global health decision making and news coverage in Cambridge, MA, in December 2011. The keynote presentation by Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), focused on U.S. efforts to target interventions to save children’s lives including access to immunizations, steps to improve newborn mortality, prevention of mother-to-child HIV, and initiatives to boost infant nutrition, family planning and malaria prevention. A video of the event and Dr. Shah’s speech is available here. The subsequent discussion centered on international aid priorities and decision-making, and on the media’s challenges in reporting on global health. At an all-day workshop following this event, a smaller group of journalists debated how best to report effectively on global health issues in the digital age.
