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Medical Evidence Boot Camp, Fall 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - Friday, December 4, 2009

 

One of the most difficult challenges facing journalists who cover health is the uncertainty of nearly all medical evidence. Many studies come to contradictory conclusions, yet the public's interest in medical news and the need for reliable health information is growing.
 
To help journalists make sense of all this, MIT's Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program offers an intensive course, now in its eighth year, on how to evaluate medical evidence.

People Attending this Bootcamp

Arielle Becker
Staff Reporter , The Hartford Courant
Sewell Chan
Bureau Chief/Metropolitan News , The New York Times
Elizabeth Cooney
Correspondent , The Boston Globe
Kelly Crowe
National TV Correspondent , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Linda Dahlstrom
Deputy Health Editor , MSNBC.com
Deborah Fryer
Writer/Producer/Editor , Lila Films, Colorado
Ann Kim
Freelance Film Producer/Director
Becky Lang
Health, Science and Environment Editor , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sacha Pfeiffer
Senior Reporter, Health/Science , WBUR, Boston's NPR news station
Margot Sanger-Katz
Reporter , Concord Monitor, New Hampshire
Deborah Schoch
Freelance writer , Long Beach, California
Monifa Thomas
Health Reporter , Chicago Sun-Times