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9 of 10 Would Repeat Career Choice
By Staff Reporters
According to the Association of Health Care Journalists on March 12, 2009 pia@healthjournalism.ccsend.com, and on behalf of the Association of Health Care Journalists news@healthjournalism.org; a new survey cited newsroom cutbacks, lack of time for research and travel, and fewer opportunities for training at their news organization as factors making their jobs more challenging than ever; so says the recently released survey in conjunction with the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Fewer Drawbacks in Health Reporting
Moreover, while about 3 in 4 respondents said that US journalism was headed in the wrong direction, just more than half felt that way about health journalism. And two-thirds of respondents said health care journalism was headed in the right direction at their media outlet.
A Hardy Career
Fortunately, health journalists are a hardy bunch. Nearly three-quarters of health journalists surveyed said the amount of coverage given to health care topics has stayed the same or increased at their news organization and two-thirds said the quality of coverage has been stable or gotten better over the past few years.
Link: http://www.healthjournalism.org/resources-articles-details.php?id=94
Assessment
Despite the challenges and the uncertain times, 88 percent of respondents said if they had to make their career choice over again they would still go into health journalism. Interestingly, that was the same percentage of respondents who said they had health insurance.
Conclusion
And so, your thoughts and comments on this Medical Executive-Post are appreciated. Does this positive career choice percentage for health journalists match that of physicians today? Was this career choice query even asked of doctors two decades ago?
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http://www.healthjournalism.org/blog/index.php?s=fauber
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