8 Reporters Named JAWS 2025 Health Journalism Fellows

By: Journalsm & Women Symposium (JAWS)
 
GRANDVILLE, Mich. - Jan. 11, 2025 - PRLog -- Eight early-career journalists have been awarded the 2025 JAWS Health Journalism Fellowship. These early career journalists will examine disparities and inequities in U.S. health care.

The fellowship will train more journalists in health reporting and help diversify the journalist pool for better and more inclusive reporting on health issues across the nation. The Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) is the premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to professional growth and empowerment of women journalists, The fellowship is supported by The Commonwealth Fund.

Each fellow will spend the next 7 months working on a substantive reporting project, assisted by a reporting grant of $4,000. Fellows receive a one-year membership to JAWS and registration and travel expenses to the JAWS annual conference.

"The training and guidance our fellows receive through the program provide an important base for filling a key need to have more women covering the health beat," said JAWS president Angela Greiling Keane.

Veteran health journalist Liz Seegert directs the program. Fellows are mentored by experienced health journalists Naseem Miller, senior health reporter at The Journalist's Resource and Margarita Birnbaum, a freelance reporter focusing on health equity in Dallas.

The  2025 fellows:
Nik Altenberg, Santa Cruz Local -- health harms of pesticides in Watsonville, CA, community, particularly farmworkers and children.

Taylor Blatchford, The Seattle Times -- Complexities of mental health crisis response through the lens of two key groups of people: dispatchers for 911 and 988, and teams of mental health professionals that respond to people in crisis.

Emily Brindley, Dallas Morning News -- communities without access to maternity services, focusing on hospitals that have closed their labor and delivery departments.

Julia Métraux, Mother Jones -- how biases about disability and pregnancy shape the treatment of disabled pregnant patients.

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News -- whether Native Americans were disproportionately affected during the Medicaid unwinding in California, Arizona, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Montana.

Kena Shah, freelance, The Fuller Project -- how Canadian health care is unexpectedly lagging behind its American counterpart when it comes to care for female genital mutilation survivors.

Natalie Skowlund, freelance, Latino USA -- a pocast series on health disparities in Colorado's Latino community.

Shernay Williams, freelance, Ivanhoe Broadcast News -- breast cancer trends in Black women, in particular the mortality gap and genetic predisposition to the disease.

Fellows were selected from a pool of diverse applicants, based on their knowledge and depth of understanding of their proposal issue, the proposed project's contribution to public discussion and debate, its potential impact on the intended audience, challenges to conventions or stereotypes, and ability to meet high journalistic standards.

For more information about the Journalism & Women Symposium, the health journalism fellowship, and the Commonwealth Fund's support, visit JAWS.org (https://www.jaws.org/)

Contact
Liz Seegert, Project director
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