Campaigning for a fact-based approach to health journalism

摘要

Journalist Gary Schwitzer campaigns for fact-based and ethical news reporting of health and medical matters in the United States of America (USA). In 2006, he launched HealthNewsReview.org to monitor the quality of health and medical news coverage in the United States. Since 2013, he has been Adjunct Associate Professor in the Dean’s Office of the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. In the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he held senior posts teaching journalism and health journalism between 2001 and 2010. In 2000, he founded MayoClinic.com, a free online consumer health information service, where he was editor-in-chief until 2001. From 1991 to 1999, Schwitzer worked to produce video shared decision-making programmes at the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making at Dartmouth Medical School. He was a medical news correspondent at Cable News Network, Atlanta, from 1984 to 1990 and a general and medical reporter with local television stations from 1972 to 1979. He graduated in broadcast journalism from Marquette University, Milwaukee, in 1973.