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The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism conducted this study of how the U.S. news media covered health issues over an 18-month period from January 2007 through June 2008. The study finds that news about health and health care made up less than four percent (3.6%) of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008. The study also examines the type of health coverage in the news,…
International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Kaiser/CNN Awards for Excellence in HIV Reporting in Africa About The Award Since 2006, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and CNN/MultiChoice have teamed up to offer the Kaiser/CNN Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa. The award, presented as part of the prestigious CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, is part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s global effort to increase and sustain media coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to improve…
Television as a Health Educator: A Case Study of Grey’s Anatomy In order to document how well viewers learn health information from entertainment television, the Foundation worked with writers at Grey’s Anatomy to embed a health message in an episode, and then surveyed viewers on the topic before and after the episode aired. The study included three national random-digit-dial telephone surveys of regular viewers of the show, conducted one week before, one week after, and…
The Foundation and the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society examined three seasons (2004-2006) of top-ten-rated prime time scripted shows to measure the prevalence of health content on entertainment shows and to categorize the type of health content on prime time television. The analysis reveals that an average of six out of ten episodes (59%) had at least one health storyline. Report (.pdf)
International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Russia/Ukraine Recent Project Events 2007 Kyiv, Ukraine, Training program – On the Frontline of an Epidemic: Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Mass Media, April 2007 (.pdf) Kyiv, Ukraine, Reporting on ARV- treatment in Mass Media, March 2007 (.pdf) 2006 Moscow, Russia, Training for Journalists and Representatives of AIDS-service Organizations, November 2006 (.pdf) Kyiv, Ukraine, Journalism Training Workshop in the Coverage of HIV/AIDS, June 2006 (.pdf) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, HIV/AIDS Reporting in Mass…
About the Project The Kaiser Family Foundation and Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS joined to create the . The goal of the Media Fellowships Project was to encourage substantive coverage of the health, social, economic, political and cultural implications of HIV/AIDS and associated health problems, as well as policies and programs to address HIV/AIDS in Russia and Ukraine. The program selected journalists to undertake individual projects that focused on Russia or Ukraine. These were all projects…
About the Project While the Foundation has worked in Southern Africa for nearly 20 years, the bulk of the International Health Journalism Fellowship Project in Africa’s current focus is on the Kaiser/CNN Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa, which was launched in 2006. The award, presented as part of the prestigious CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, is part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s global effort to increase and sustain media coverage of the HIV/AIDS…
A selection of articles from our fellows' work are represented below. Many of the articles are translated from their original language (Marathi or Hindi) into English for greater accessibility. It is important to note that as a result of the translations, the language in the articles may not reflect the full original intended meaning or tone. Hindustan newsaper (Hindi) Sudhir Mishra, principal correspondent, Lucknow “Every hundreth person in Manipur is HIV positive” May 26, 2006…
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