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Wide-Ranging Study of National News Reveals Health News Comprises Less Than Four Percent of All Coverage
December 14th, 2008
As the news media industry experiences a period of upheaval and transformation, a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that news about health and health care made up less than four percent (3.6%) of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008, well behind coverage of foreign affairs and crime, and just behind stories about disasters and accidents. The study, Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media, also examines the type of health coverage in the news, and finds that the largest proportion (42%) of the stories were about specific diseases or conditions, with cancer receiving the most...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-12-14)
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