Bio statement

Associate Professor University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Comm. Publisher, HealthNewsReview.org

Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 to Friday, September 18, 2009
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)

Panel: Online Grading of Health News Reporting: >2,500 Stories in 3 Countries
Gary Schwitzer, David Henry, Alan Cassels

Australian, Canadian and U.S. teams have been using the Web to post evaluations and grades on health news coverage for the past several years. This is an attempt not only to improve health journalism itself, but to improve the accuracy, balance and completeness of information that flows to news consumers and health care consumers. This panel will reflect on what's been observed and what's been learned after the combined review of more than 2,500 stories in the three countries. The foundin...

Online Grading of Health News Reporting: >2,500 Stories in 3 Nations
Gary Schwitzer, Alan Cassels, David Henry, Harold Demonaco

Teams in the U.S. (http://www.HealthNewsReview.org), Canada (Media Doctor Canada - http://www.mediadoctor.ca/ ) and Australia (Media Doctor Australia - http://www.mediadoctor.org.au/) are using the web in a unique way to conduct daily evaluation and grading of health news reporting by journalists in those three countries. (A fourth project - Media Doctor Hong Kong - http://www.mediadoctor.hk/ - is just getting started.) Since these are all quality improvement efforts, journalists are notifie...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

A Review of Features in Internet Consumer Health Decision-support Tools
Gary Schwitzer
J Med Internet Res 2002;4(2):e11

Published With

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