Monthly Archives: April 2015
GBO NEWS: Pulitzer & AHCJ Winners; Once-Tortured Elder Black Prisoners; Social Security & 2016 Campaign
Posted: April 23, 2015 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations
April 23, 2015 — Volume 15, Number 7
Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
IN THIS ISSUE: Social Security Moved to DOD–Financing Now Undebated.
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: Wall Street Journal’s “Medicare Unmasked” Takes Pulitzer Prize and 2015 Health Journalism Award; Other AHCJ Winners: *** “Kindness of Strangers,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, by Barbara Peters-Smith; *** “Precious Pills,” Bloomberg News, by Robert Langreth; *** “Medicare Advantage Money Grab,” Center for Public Integrity, by Fred Schulte & Colleagues; “MIA In The War On Cancer: Where Are The Low-Cost Treatments?” ProPublica, by Jake Bernstein.
2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: *** Iowa GOP Sex After Sixty Gag Was No Joke (to authors Dr. Robert Butler & Myrna Lewis); *** Herbert Gold to Thomas Wolfe, “Yes You Can Go Home, Again—But at 91.”
3. FISCAL REFORM SCHOOL: “How to Bring Clarity and Urgency to Social Security Reporting” [in the 2016 campaign], by Trudy Lieberman in the Columbia Journalism Review.
4. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “Tortured, Jailed Black Seniors Released–But Denied Social Security,” by Frederick H. Lowe, NorthStar News Today/New America Media;
*** “GENTRIFIED: Gentrification Takes Toll on Oakland Seniors,” by Laura McCamy, Oakland Local/New America Media;
*** “Medicare Considers Changing Hospice Care Policy,” by Susan Jaffe, USA Today/Kaiser Health News;
*** “The Medical System May Treat You Well, But Less So After You Reach Age 80,” [http://tinyurl.com/kumwgtp] by geriatrician Louise Aronson, Washington Post;
*** “Caring for Mom & Dad,” produced by Larkin McPhee, narrated by Meryl Streep, WGBH Boston for national PBS broadcast, May 7;
*** Homes on the Range (Dr. Bill Thomas’ Green House nursing home alternative), by the Media Policy Center, PBS Stations through May.
*** “How Long Are You Likely to Live?” and “The Power of Positive Aging,” both by Flora Davis, Silver Century Foundation
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GBO NEWS: Wiser Fools; NPF Reporting Fellowship Deadline; CJR’s Trudy Lieberman; Palliative Care Resource Gap; & More
Posted: April 1, 2015 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations
April 1, 2015 — Volume 15, Number 6
Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
IN THIS ISSUE: “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.” (Fool to King Lear)
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: The National Press Foundation’s (NPF) 11th Fellowship Application Deadline, April 14
2. HEALTH CARE REFORM SCHOOL: Trudy Lieberman’s Must-Read Columbia Journalism Review Blog on Health Policy Coverage
3. THE STORYBOARD: Homes on the Range Gets First PBS Airdates on Green House Care Alternative; *** “Learning to Say No to Dialysis,” by Paula Span, New York Times “New Old Age”
4. RESOURCES: California Health Care Foundation’s Searchable Online Map Shows Gaps in Palliative Care Resources
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