The Business Of Health Journalism

There aren’t too many science journalists left these days, and that means that if you consider yourself a “health journalist” your job has changed a lot in the past few years.

Angilee Shah, community manager at ReportingOnHealth.org, delves into what that means with an interview with Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst with Poynter.

Foremost: pure science coverage is vanishing, being replaced with consumer health stories–self-help, fitness, and the like.

And second, yeah, most health journalism isn’t being produced by journalism institutions anymore.

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