journalists

Inspired by Emerge's announcement of their award for Excellence in Journalism, I wondered what one article you would choose as doing the most to improve the understanding of ME/CFS? I guess there might be a brilliant article that had limited reach, or a pretty good one that was read by a lot of...

Hi, I’m creating this thread because the Me-pedia primer for journalists is outdated. However, it is likely still being seen by many journalists: * The page gets hundreds of views per day * It is the first google search result for various searches related to journalism and reporting on ME * The...

[I didn't know where to put this - please move if needed] Seen on twitter: a “Science Journalism & Disability” Pop-up Panel & Discussion is scheduled for Tues, Nov 15, 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. RSVP. Text of tweet: "I’m excited & honored to announce a “Science Journalism & Disability” Pop-up...

The American reporter Ed Yong, who has recently written a number of well received articles on ME and Long Covid, has written a Twitter thread "about the ethos behind these pieces, and how I’ve approached interviewing, writing, and the rest of it.". I thought the thread itself was full of great...

I'm not sure how exactly our forum members might use this type of guideline, but I came across this recently and found it interesting. Link to PDF file created by MEAction: Journalist Primer: How to Report on ME/CFS

Hi All, Thank-you to those who completed a trial survey regarding images portraying ME in the media. Following yesterday's feedback, we have made significant improvements. The 'final version' of the survey is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/APictureOf_ME I would be very grateful if people...

FYI—includes MECFS Also not sure why Fiona is calling MECFS a related post-viral condition, when many Long Covid people meet the criteria for MECFS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/lyme-disease-chronic-illness.html Ross Douthat is a columnist for The NY Times. He is both a political and religious conservative. He contracted Chronic Lyme disease and wrote a book about it (he has mostly recovered). This column is an excerpt from...

"In a series of definitive pieces that earned him the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, The Atlantic’s Ed Yong anticipated the course of the coronavirus pandemic, clarified its dangers, and illuminated the American government’s disastrous failure to curb it."...

https://www.theopennotebook.com/2021/01/26/how-to-report-with-accuracy-and-sensitivity-on-contested-illnesses/

Jørgen Jelstad is a physiotherapist, author, journalist and speaker who for several years was a strong voice in the Norwegian ME debate. In 2011 he published a book about ME, "De bortgjemte" (The hidden - and how ME/CFS became the most controversial disease of our time) which was an important...

This opinion piece is very interesting because of the players mentioned; an old friend from Reuters crops up and also a new friend who we discovered in the last week or so: the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) who were behind the doxxing article which mentioned Michael Sharpe. I...

on AfME twitter feed. I don't know anything else.

Private Eye magazine is seeking nominations for investigative journalism. Think David Tuller is well worth nominating for this. Sadly just spotted & deadline is 2nd April & have little time to prepare. Award is worth £5,000 and would bring judges eyes to bear on the issues. Wonder if...

I often get the impression that Prof Simon Wessely, Prof Michael Sharpe and others from the Wessely School of psychiatrists prey on naive young journalists. I suspect these psychiatrists are using their skills in psychology to butter up the journalist, perhaps over a few beers in a bar, playing...

A journalist is looking for a case study of parents of a child with ME who have had social services become involved inappropriately. I googled and she’s written about ME before: https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/6235179/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-me-and-me/

Morning all. Series two of The ME Show has just gone live. You can listen online at www.meassociation.org.uk/themeshow Or you can subscribe, rate and review in iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-me-show/id1374903449?mt=2&i=1000428583066 I hope you find the series...

full article here: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/lyme-disease-contested-illness-empathy.php

BBC Wales are planning a story on ME: WAMES homepage: http://wames.org.uk/cms-english/

Would someone who's on twitter please make this dutch journalist aware of... - the S4ME PACE briefing paper: https://www.s4me.info/threads/science-for-me-pace-briefing-document.3140/#post-55894 - Graham's video...