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- Ernie Scott, Kentucky Rural Health Leader, Gets National Award
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- 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 Don't Write A Lot Of Health Stories ? But They Should, Expert Says
?If a newspaper can?t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?? This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today by Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, who keynoted...
- 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...
- Kentucky Rural Health Assn. Gives First Newspaper Writing Awards; Kentucky Health News Writer Wins For Previous Work
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. Kaprowy won the prise for best series in a non-daily newspaper for her five-part series in The Sentinel-Echo...
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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 divisions, each with two categories: series and single story. Each of the four winners gets a plaque and a $100 prize at KRHA's summer conference. Articles must originally have been published during the preceding fiscal year. Entries will be accepted from staff writers, editors, freelance writers and others affiliated with a Kentucky-based newspaper, and from KRHA members and community members at large on the writers? or newspapers? behalf. Each entry should include three copies of the article as it originally appeared in the newspaper. The awards will be based on relevance to rural health, quality of reporting, impact on health care policy and new insights generated by the reporting.
For entry information, contact Ernie L. Scott of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health at 750 Morton Blvd., Hazard KY 41701, or 606.439.3557 ext. 83689, or [email protected].
The contest has daily and non-daily divisions, each with two categories: series and single story. Each of the four winners gets a plaque and a $100 prize at KRHA's summer conference. Articles must originally have been published during the preceding fiscal year. Entries will be accepted from staff writers, editors, freelance writers and others affiliated with a Kentucky-based newspaper, and from KRHA members and community members at large on the writers? or newspapers? behalf. Each entry should include three copies of the article as it originally appeared in the newspaper. The awards will be based on relevance to rural health, quality of reporting, impact on health care policy and new insights generated by the reporting.
For entry information, contact Ernie L. Scott of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health at 750 Morton Blvd., Hazard KY 41701, or 606.439.3557 ext. 83689, or [email protected].
- Ernie Scott, Kentucky Rural Health Leader, Gets National Award
Ernie Scott, director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, has received the 2014 Emerging Leader Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. Scott received his award Oct. 28 during the organization?s annual conference in...
- 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 Don't Write A Lot Of Health Stories ? But They Should, Expert Says
?If a newspaper can?t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?? This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today by Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, who keynoted...
- 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...
- Kentucky Rural Health Assn. Gives First Newspaper Writing Awards; Kentucky Health News Writer Wins For Previous Work
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. Kaprowy won the prise for best series in a non-daily newspaper for her five-part series in The Sentinel-Echo...