Laura Beil Randy Dotinga Deborah Schoch
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Freelance Journalists Laura Beil, Randy Dotinga, and Deborah Schoch have been elected and can be part of three incumbents on the Affiliation of Well being Care Journalists’ 2022-23 board of directors.
Beil, a Texas-based journalist with greater than 20 years of expertise in well being and science writing, has beforehand been printed in ProPublica, Texas Month-to-month, the New York Occasions and Science Information. She acquired the 2018 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting from the Council for the Development of Science Writing (CASW).
Dotinga, a California-based journalist, has been a contract reporter for greater than 20 years, with work showing within the Washington Submit, MedPage At this time, and the Christian Science Monitor. The longtime advocate for journalists has served as president of the American Society of Journalists & Authors from 2014-2016, in addition to the NLGJA: The Affiliation of LGBTQ Journalists board of administrators for eight years.
Schoch, a California-based journalist, spent 18 years with the Los Angeles Occasions earlier than becoming a member of the USC-based Heart for Well being Reporting. For greater than three many years, Schoch has labored with retailers such because the New York Occasions and AARP to enhance well being reporting in communities throughout the nation. She has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard to review science and regulation.
Collectively, the three new board members have greater than 50 years’ expertise as AHCJ members.
Incumbents beginning a brand new time period embody Carrie Feibel, NPR’s Science Desk; Joyce Frieden, Worldwide Medical Information Group and MedPage At this time; and Sabriya Rice, Kaiser Well being Information.
The board members be part of these elected final yr for two-year phrases: Christine Herman, well being reporter at Illinois Public Media; Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, public well being reporter at KBIA and adjunct teacher on the Missouri Faculty of Journalism; Marlene Harris-Taylor, managing producer at NPR/PBS affiliate ideastream; Jeanne Erdmann, a Missouri-based freelancer; Felice Freyer, well being reporter at The Boston Globe; and Gideon Gil, managing editor at STAT.
Officers will remain in their current positions till October 1 when a brand new slate might be elected.
The Affiliation of Well being Care Journalists is an impartial, nonprofit group devoted to advancing public understanding of well being care points. Its mission is to enhance the standard, accuracy and visibility of well being care reporting, writing and modifying. It’s a group of about 1,500 individuals dedicated to the best requirements of reporting, writing, modifying, and broadcasting in well being care journalism for most people and commerce publications. The Affiliation hosts a resource-laden web site, presents quite a few fellowships for journalists, conducts coaching to assist journalists enhance and advance their protection and advocates for the free stream of data to the general public. AHCJ is housed on the Missouri Faculty of Journalism.
