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Restoring Trust in Journalism: An Education Prescription

Costs, Evidence, Context and Values: Journalists’ and Policy Experts’ Recommendations for U.S. Health Policy Coverage

Kim Walsh-Childers' primary teaching areas are journalism/mass media ethics, and a graduate seminar in mass media and health. She is the chair of IRB-02, which is the protection of human subjects committee dealing with social, behavioral, and education research. Her research focuses on news coverage of health issues, mass media effects on individual health and health policy, and the relationship between mass media content and adolescent sexual beliefs and behavior. Her work has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Communication Research, Pediatrics, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care.

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Health Communication

Ethics

Editing

Professional Responsibility

Reporting

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Kim Walsh-Childers Comments on Criticism of Pandemic Media Coverage

Kim Walsh-Childers Comments on Florida Surgeon General’s Appearance on Controversial Podcast

Kim Walsh-Childers Comments on the Impact of News Coverage of Tragedies in the U.S.

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