"Having dedicated health reporters in key newsrooms makes a huge difference, and giving those reporters the time to cultivate their contacts, to dig through documents, to make OIA requests."
#RachelThomas, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=61d7c2a9-7bca-435a-b796-b5d87c90ca92
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#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch #healthcare #NewsMedia #HealthReporting
When @statnews publishes an opinion piece on #pediatric #obesity guidelines and labels it as investigative journalism, they are dispensing spin.
This is disappointing from an organization with otherwise high standards for #HealthReporting.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/09/spin-with-a-pretense-of-journalism-in-pediatric-obesity/
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