Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/investigating-healthcare/)
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism looks into a deadly migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, nepotism in US politics, French police brutality, and record-breaking global warming.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists worldwide were suddenly thrown into the public health beat, trying to make sense of competing claims, and a science that seemed to change by the day. A session at the GIJC21 walked reporters through the COVID-19 pandemic, offering tips on covering the drug development and approval processes, evaluating scientific studies, unearthing conflicts of interest, and exposing fraud and malpractice.
To share best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent global conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. This latest installment focuses on key issues like health and medicine, women’s leadership, investigative podcasts, and Indigenous reporting.
গিয়াকোমো বোলোনিয়া। একটি অনুসন্ধান করতে গিয়ে ঘর ভাড়া নিয়েছিলেন আদালতের পাশে। দিনের পর দিন বসে থেকে পড়েছেন মামলার ৫০ হাজার নথি। সবকটিই একটি হাসপাতালকে নিয়ে। সেই নথির সূত্র ধরে তিনি উন্মোচন করেন হাসপাতালটির অনৈতিক ব্যবসা পদ্ধতি, যার জের ধরে পথে বসেছেন অনেক গরিব চিকিৎসাপ্রার্থী। এই অনুসন্ধানের কথা শুনুন বোলোনিয়ার মুখ থেকেই।
When Giacomo Bologna was working on his first freelance story, he reached out to the Fund for Investigative Journalism for help. With a grant to cover his gas mileage, the cost of copying records, and his time, Bologna set up shop in a small room on the third floor of a courthouse in Mississippi and started reviewing paper files to trace a large nonprofit hospital’s practice of aggressively pursuing payment from thousands of poor patients.
When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold last year, editors scrambled to rapidly assemble teams to cover the crisis. Steps ahead were the outlets already dedicated to investigating health as a subject who knew how to source and build networks of public health and vaccine experts, and crucially, how to investigate both the science and the politics behind the pandemic response.