Last year, I lamented the departure from the Australian media industry of many journalists with a wealth of experience in reporting on health, medicine and science. One of the journalists then mentioned, science writer and broadcaster Leigh Dayton, writes below that science journalism is in decline globally. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we [...]
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Announcing a new Croakey service, reporting on the National Rural Health Conference
This post is announcing a new development at Croakey: the launch of a service to provide news reports from public health and health policy conferences. I am delighted that the National Rural Health Alliance has agreed to trial the service at the 12th National Rural Health Conference, to be held in Adelaide from 7-10 April. [...]
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A note to readers about new faces and other developments at Croakey (plus a call for helpers)
When the Crikey Health and Medical Panel was established in 2007 (as outlined in this article in the Medical Journal of Australia), its aims included: developing a mechanism for encouraging greater breadth and depth of public debate about health issues; encouraging and facilitating public health advocates to engage in public debate; and influencing media reporting [...]
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#Sandy puts climate change on the agenda
As the effects of Hurricane Sandy began to hit her city, public health author and analyst Laurie Garrett gathered her thoughts about the science and the politics of climate change. Working in her apartment atop the tallest residential building on the Brooklyn waterfront, she titled her article: “Frankenstorm: due to climate change?” Garrett, who may [...]
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Another health journalist leaves the industry…
As noted in a recent post, many journalists with longstanding experience and expertise in covering health, medicine and science have left mainstream media outlets. And today, news of another departure – Adam Cresswell, health editor at The Australian, is heading to the National Health Performance Authority as Director of Communications… AKA @adamfcresswell
READ MOREA mega-wrap of public health and policy reading from Croakey contributors
Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering articles posted between 11 April and 3 September. As always, thanks are due to the many contributors who generously volunteer [...]
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An idea for harnessing the expertise of departing journalists – and providing a powerful health service to local communities
(This post is being updated as more comments land…) This is a fraught time for journalists and the media industry, and it is particularly depressing for those who care about the quality of reporting on health, medicine and science. These journalists are leaving or have left their jobs: • Leigh Dayton, science writer at The [...]
READ MOREA mega-wrap of recent news on climate change and health
People with an interest in public health, climate change and new media start ups will participate in a workshop in Melbourne today to brainstorm ideas for a new online publication on climate change and health (as previously reported at Croakey). (If you’d like to participate virtually, please contact me before 11am). It is timely, given [...]
READ MOREPublic health is in the firing line in Queensland
Croakey has been hearing plenty of rumblings of concern about the impact of Queensland Government cutbacks upon public health services and programs. The Health Media Club (which was recently profiled at Croakey) will seek to bring the potential impact of such cuts to media and public attention with an event featuring Mike Daube, Professor of Health [...]
READ MOREHelp create an online publication covering climate change and health
Earlier this year, Croakey asked readers to pitch ideas for new online publications covering an area of need in health. The idea was to select one for development during a workshop at the New News conference in Melbourne on August 25. In all, 19 suggestions were put forward, covering a wide range of general and specific [...]
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