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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 702 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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The Importance of Journalism to Public Health: 10 Years After SARS How Are We Doing?

April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 749 Views developmental design, developmental evaluation, evidence, health communications, health reporting, Helen Branswell, journalism, Julie Leask, media, public health, social media, systems thinking, Wayne MacPhail

If a health scare manifested itself in the world and there were no journalists to cover the story, what would

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The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine

December 11, 2012December 11, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 342 Views Andre Picard, blogging, Darwin the monkey, evidence, health evidence, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, Malcolm Gladwell, media, Mitch Waldrop, news, newspapers, public health, science, social media, Stan Glantz, Steven Johnson, the fourth estate, tobacco control

Journalists occupy an important, yet often unacknowledged, role in the health system by providing a dispassionate account of the system’s

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