new media, traditional media: how are messages getting through in today’s ecosystem?
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New Media, Traditional Media: How are messages getting
through in today’s ecosystem?Calorie Control Council
Ponte Vedre Beach, November 5, 2013
Ivan Oransky, MDVice President, Global Editorial Director, MedPage Today
Co-Founder, Retraction WatchTreasurer, Association of Health Care Journalists
Adjunct Assoc. Prof. of Journalism, New York University
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Why Is It So Bad?
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In a national survey of U.S. health and medical journalists: • Nearly 70% had at least a bachelor’s degree• 19% reported having a master’s degree; • 4.5% had a doctorate; about 3% were M.D.s • Almost half had a degree in journalism• 13% had a degree in communications • 8% were ‘‘life sciences’’ majors
Viswanath K et al: Occupational practices and the making of health news: A national survey of U.S. health and medical science journalists. Journal of Health Communication 2008; 13:759–777.
Who Covers Health?
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How Are The Media Doing?
Schwitzer G. How do U.S. journalists cover treatments, tests, products, and procedures? An evaluation of 500 stories. PLoS Medicine 2008 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050095
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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989
Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php
Who are Today’s Media, Really?
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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989
• 34 in 2005
Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php
Who are Today’s Media, Really?
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• 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989
• 34 in 2005• 19 in 2012
Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/currents/hard_numbers_jf2013.php
Who are Today’s Media, Really?
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Who are Today’s Media, Really?
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Who are Today’s Media, Really?
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“Journalism’s New Marquee Brothers”
Jack Shafer, http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/08/21/journalisms-new-marquee-brothers/
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• Develop relationships– Answer calls– Don’t hype– Don’t just call when you have a paper
published– Send newsworthy items and ideas from other
groups– Be an reporter’s back pocket expert
• Help news offices write better press releases
What You Can Do
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Pitch Less, Tip More
http://dontgetcaught.biz/
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Use Social Media to Develop Relationships with Reporters
http://muckrack.com/
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Use Twitter
• Follow reporters to see what they’re interested in
• Don’t use it to send the same thing to 30 reporters
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Avoid Jargon
• Talk to me like I’m your smart 14-year-old nephew
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Start Your Own Blog
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Start Your Own Blog
http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/
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Start Your Own Blog
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Start Your Own Blog
http://whitecoatunderground.com/
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Start Your Own Blog
http://www.medicallessons.net/
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Get to Know AHCJ
http://healthjournalism.org/
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Get to Know AHCJ
• >1,400 members in every U.S. state, >25 countries
• Strict membership guidelines: Journalists only
• Annual conference with workshops, newsmakers, more
• Conference exhibitors span health care
• Website http://www.healthjournalism.org has reporting guides, blog, tipsheets, other resources
http://healthjournalism.org/
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Let’s Work to Avoid This
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Contact Info/Acknowledgements
@ivanoransky
http://retractionwatch.com
Thanks: Nancy Lapid, Reuters Health