Health journalism conference in Coventry

From Alan Taman (NUJ PRCC & Birmingham Vice-Chair):

Second International Conference on Health Journalism

14-16 May, Coventry

I'm co-organising a major conference on health journalism in May, as well as helping to run the NUJ's campaign on health journalism reporting and PR (details: www.europeanhealthjournalism.com ).

One of my chief concerns is that any journalist who could be called on to cover health hears about these, and can attend and contribute if possible. This of course includes many who do not have specialist training in health; if anything, I think it's more important that they hear about what we are trying to achieve, and we hear what they have to say.

Could I therefore please ask you to pass on the details about the conference to your members, especially those with an interest in health and the health services?

The aim of the conference is to look at the issues facing the reporting of health and health PR internationally as well as in the UK, and begin to address ways of ensuring all reporters and PRs who have to cover health have enough resources and training (www.europeanhealthjournalism.com ; #forhealthj on Twitter). Please contact myself for further details on aptaman@aol.com.

Thank you.