The Northwell Health Foundation and the GroundTruth Project recently announced the establishment of a new health reporting fellowship that will produce a podcast series exploring opiod prescriptions and addiction, the link to heroin and other illegal drugs, and potential solutions.
GroundTruth supports a new generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of their generation, according to a press release from Northwell Health.
To carry out this reporting fellowship, GroundTruth is partnering with the Northwell Health Foundation to support research and training for a new generation of health care leaders, offering reporting fellowships to graduates of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.
Over the next month, GroundTruth will be accepting applications for the fellowship.
By early January, it will assemble a team of reporters and editors to produce a five-episode series of podcasts that will rely on narrative storytelling to address the issues.
The reporting will look at a complex set of questions around the issue by focusing on the stories of providers and patients, and steps being taken to correct the gaps in the health delivery system.
“Health care, and specifically emergency health care, is under enormous pressure to treat people quickly and effectively,” Terry Lynam, senior vice president at Northwell Health said. “The Hippocratic oath famously says ‘first, do no harm’ — but what if, in some instances, the desire to treat and cure is providing unintentional complications for the patient and society as a whole? How do we address that?”
The reporting team will produce a multimedia report to accompany the podcast and will seek out editorial partners to expand the reach of the reporting.
The fellowship will include a stipend of $5,000 for each selected reporting fellow.
Beginning in January, the fellowship will be structured around a one-week workshop focused on the craft of podcasting and three weeks of reporting in the field in New York.
The fellowship will be open to current students and recent graduates of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday, November 22, and winners will be announced in December.
Applications should include a resume, five samples of writing, podcasting or other editorial work and a cover letter outlining the applicant’s interest in reporting on health and what approaches they feel are important in examining the Affordable Care Act.
Please send applications to: fellowships@thegroundtruthproject.org.
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