Daniel Chang's slides from the Center for Health Journalism webinar, "Master Class: Reporting on Health Policy" 9.6.18 More info: https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/content/master-class-reporting-health-policy

1. Daniel Chang
Healthcare Reporter
The Miami Herald
dchang@MiamiHerald.com
@dchangmiami

2. A Day In the Life
 Build a daily “news feeding” routine
 Local sources: Facebook, Twitter, subscribe to email
newsletters, check local blogs.
 National perspective: Kaiser Health News ‘Morning
Briefing’, Health Affairs ‘Following the ACA’, STAT
‘Morning Rounds’, Morning Consult ‘Health’, the New‘Morning Rounds’, Morning Consult ‘Health’, the New
York Times’ ‘The Upshot’, Modern Healthcare A.M.
 Pick up the phone. Catch up with old sources.
Introduce yourself to new ones. Don’t fear the cold
call.
 Meet sources for coffee and chit chat. Take notes
sparingly. If they give you something good you can
come back and ask to go on the record.

3. Finding the Right Source
 What will they do? Illustrate policy impact, provide
expert perspective, subjects of news events.
 You will meet many people. Keep an Excel list
organized by subject relevance.
 Issue open calls – Public Insight Network, Twitter posts, Issue open calls – Public Insight Network, Twitter posts,
Miami Herald Facebook page, notices in stories.
 Traditional sources like police and fire PIOs, hospital
public affairs, Lexis-Nexis and Accurint.
 Advocacy groups: AARP, navigators, FQHCs
 Sometimes sources find you through your reporting.

4. The Reiters of South Florida

5. Bringing the Big Stories Home
 Who’s your audience?
 Identify the healthcare stories that matter to your
readers, listeners, viewers – chronic conditions,
accessibility, physician shortage, a hospital closureaccessibility, physician shortage, a hospital closure
 CHNAs, health department assessments, insurer
spending all provide clues to how people in your
community are using healthcare and why
 Read your colleagues work on Center for Health
Journalism, AHCJ
 Localize your morning news feed

6. Balance Billing as a Local Issue