That is what health reporting is about.
Whether it is about living in a healthy environment, eating nourishing food, staying strong enough to achieve our goals or avoiding the communicable deadly illnesses that make this world a smaller place each day, writing about health means writing about the quality and duration of our lives. For that reason, whether you cover sports, features, business, breaking news, investigative stories, or edit the words that make print, health is part of your business. And whether you tell the story of one person’s illness, or of policies that affect the common good, writing about health gives you the chance to save and improve the lives of your readers. These bulletins are intended to help you find what you need to know to make the most of that chance.
17/07/2009 at 20:31 |
I agree that health is the responsibility of every journalist. Health journalism does not only provide great oportunities for us to report on matters affecting the survival of the people we write about and quote. It also helps us to realise how, as writers, we often neglect our own health. We can only be in a position to help others confront infection and illness if we are healthy. A sick journalist will not have the energy, motivation and drive to write.
Check your health