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Tara Kaprowy, the chief writer for Kentucky Health News, won one of the first awards given by the Kentucky Rural Health Association for newspaper writing.
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Kentucky Rural Health Assn. gives first newspaper writing awards; Kentucky Health News writer wins for previous work
Kaprowy won the prise for best series in a non-daily newspaper for her five-part series in The Sentinel-Echo of London titled ?How Healthy Are We?? The August 2010 series examined how Laurel County compared to state and national averages for tobacco use, obesity, access to health care, and so on.
Ivy Brashear, formerly of The Hazard Herald, won prize for best story in a non-daily paper for her April 6, 2011, article, ?Health study has Perry near the bottom,? about a Population Health Institute study that ranked Perry?s health status as 115th among the state's 120 counties. There were no daily entries; each winner received a plaque and $100 prize.
These types of reports can be done by any news outlet in Kentucky, because plenty of data are available on sites such as http://www.kyhealthfacts.org/. For a look at Kaprowy's series, go here.
- Weekly Paper In Hazard Says Beshear Should Expand Medicaid
Gov. Steve Beshear should expand the Medicaid program for the poor under federal health reform to improve the health and welfare of Kentuckians, The Hazard Herald said in its editorial this week. "We?re tired of reading report after report listing the...
- Ky. Rural Health Association Seeks Entries In Reporting Contest
The Kentucky Rural Health Association invites nominations for its annual rural health reporting awards, which aim to encourage more and better coverage of Kentucky?s rural health-related issues by the state?s newspapers. The contest has daily and non-daily...
- Newspaper Reporting Contest For Rural Health Coverage; Deadline June 24
Journalists who have reported about rural health in the past year should start sifting through their clippings. The Kentucky Rural Health Association is awarding four writers $100 each for their efforts. Entries will be judged on their relevance to rural...
- Rural Newspapers Have Power To Influence People's Health, But Few Health Articles Are Being Published In Kentucky, Study Finds
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News Though studies suggest that newspapers can influence people's decisions about their health and can even lead to public-policy changes, for the most part Kentucky's rural newspaper editors are publishing very...
- Your Blogger Believes Health Coverage Can Change Lives
Tara Kaprowy, the chief blogger for Kentucky Health News, is a freelance journalist living in Somerset. At the end of 2010, she left her post at The Sentinel-Echo in London, where, for five years, she was a general-assignment reporter covering health,...