The Kaiser Family Foundation today released a report that questions the future of global health journalism.

“The report found that shrinking newsroom budgets and the closing of many foreign bureaus are curtailing global health coverage within traditional news media outlets. Advocacy and NGOs are increasingly bypassing news outlets and producing their own content, leading to questions about how global health news will evolve. In addition, with outside sources now funding some global health journalism coverage, the long-term sustainability of such funding is brought into question. Journalists Nellie Bristol and John Donnelly interviewed 51 stakeholders in global health journalism, including reporters, editors and producers from mainstream publications and news outlets, and policy, trade and medical journals; writers from advocacy outlets; and staff at journalism fellowship organizations.”

Read the full report here