Medical Symposium To Bring Leading Medical Journalists To UNC-CH
September 29, 1997Before October 15, 1997 -- $125
After October 15, 1997 -- $150 Symposium Registration
To register, make you $125 check payable to the UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication and mail to:
1997 Medical News Reporting Symposium
UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communcation
Campus Box 3365
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365
For more information, call (919) 962-4078
To make hotel reservations, call The Carolina Inn at (919) 933-2001 and ask for room reservations for the 1997 Medical News Reporting Conference. Room reservations deadline is October 24.
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During the symposium, you'll learn how to:
- Analyze medical statistics to separate the news from the trash.
- Quickly interpret often conflicting and confusing medical source materials.
- Start your own medical news radio show.
- Improve you medical television news reporting skills.
- Use the medical Internet to your advantage.
- Rapidly develop solid medical news story ideas.
- Engage physicians and other healthcare providers to help you do your job better.
- Utilize information available through pharmaceutical and other medical industry sources.
- George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent.
- Joe and Teresa Graedon, hosts of the syndicated radio show People's Pharmacy and the newspaper column by the same name.
- Victor Cohn, former Washington Post medical reporter and author of the basic text for journalists for interpreting medical statistics, News & Numbers.
- Leslie Lang, medical journalist for Reuters Health Information Services and former medical editor of Med/NIWS, a nationally syndicated television news service.
- Additional faculty to be announced.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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