Julia Belluz

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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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Sane truths in Crazy Town: What Rob Ford’s story offers politics, science and journalism

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 267 Views Andre Picard, Ben Goldacre, book review, Crazy Town, Edward Snowden, evidence, Globe and Mail, journalism, Julia Belluz, Rob Ford, Robyn Doolittle, science, Toronto

A new book about Toronto’s (in)famous mayor reveals a great deal more than just a story of man known more

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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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