Date and Time: July 20, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online
UPDATE: You can find the tipsheet for this webinar here.
New to the health beat? Want to learn more about how health issues play out at a local level?
Join presenters and veteran health journalists Barbara Feder Ostrov and Mark Taylor as they help you build your own survival kit for covering health care and the business of health in your community. You'll learn about the key sources, government officials, advocacy groups, healthcare providers, regulatory agencies and business interests that influence how health care is delivered - for better or for worse - at the local level. A great way to build your source list!
This webinar is targeted to beginning-to-intermediate journalists, bloggers and others who want an overview of how health care is provided in their communities and more knowledge of their health-related business community.
Barbara Feder Ostrov is deputy editor of Center for Health Journalism Digital and covered healthcare and medicine at the San Jose Mercury News for eight years. Mark Taylor, an Indiana-based freelance journalist, formerly worked for Modern Healthcare and the Gary Post Tribune and is a founding member of the Association for Health Care Journalists.
To register, please click here.