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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 473 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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Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 122 Views AOL, complexity, developmental evaluation, digital economy, dominant design, emergence, Harvard University, innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, knowledge translation, media, New York Times, newspapers, Nieman Journalism Lab, path dependency, public policy, publishing, resilience, resiliency, science, social media, systems thinking, The Joan Shorenstein Center, transmedia, Twitter

Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media

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300: Crises in Complexity, Opportunities in Design

August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 111 Views architecture, blogging, complexity, design, design for emergence, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, Globe and Mail, Hannah Montana, maker culture, making-meaning, media, Miley Cyrus, Monocle, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Nautilus Magazine, newspapers, policy, Robin Thicke, science, social media, The Alpine Review, Vi Hart, weak signals, wicked problem

In 2009 Censemaking was launched as a platform to explore issues in complexity and ways we can make sense of

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Of digital riptides and original sin — was the decline of newspapers inevitable?

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 110 Views Clay Shirky, Clayton Christensen, disruption, disruptive innovation, Internet, Matthew Ingram, media, newspapers

Matthew Ingram does a good job of doing a retrospective on the state of newspapers and questioning the fit their

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The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine

December 11, 2012December 11, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 129 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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