News Release

Medical Symposium To Bring Leading Medical Journalists To UNC-CH

Meeting Announcement

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Before 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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Objectives

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.



Faculty

  • 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.


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