Anna Medaris
Health and Lifestyle Journalist at Freelance
Freelance health & lifestyle journalist. Seen in @NYMag @WashingtonPost @cosmopolitan @womenshealthmag, etc. Novice triathlete, expert #beer enthusiast.
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3 weeks ago |
onepeloton.com | Anna Medaris
Mental health, emotional health—potato, pot-ah-to, right? Not quite. When comparing mental vs. emotional health, the two aren’t as interchangeable as conventional use might have you believe. “There’s sometimes confusion when we talk about behavioral health, mental health, and emotional health,” says Thomas R. Milam, MD, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer of Iris Telehealth.
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1 month ago |
healthjournalism.org | Anna Medaris
From news about the Trump administration’s insulting potential strategies to incentivize women to have more babies to dire headlines about abortion bans increasing infant and maternal mortality, there’s no shortage of depressing — if not downright dystopian — reproductive health stories for journalists to follow and write.
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1 month ago |
healthjournalism.org | Anna Medaris
Do you have a great story idea but not sure which publication is the right fit? Or, do you want to write for a certain outlet but don’t know how to best reach out? AHCJ’s Freelance Market Guides include tips for pitching over 50 publications — including the New York Times, NPR, Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Wired and others — based on interviews with the editors who field them.
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1 month ago |
healthjournalism.org | Anna Medaris
From pitching into an apparent void to dealing with “scope creep” — or when an assignment involves a lot more than what was originally agreed upon, without added compensation — freelance writers deal with some particular challenges that staff journalists typically do not. Of course, all journalists face many of the same issues from time to time too, whether it’s managing burnout, combatting procrastination or disagreeing with an editor’s changes.
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1 month ago |
healthjournalism.org | Anna Medaris
When Chris Gayomali got laid off by Conde Nast in 2024, he started spending more time at the gym. “I was working out all of the time because I didn’t have anything else to do,” said Gayomali, who’d worked as an editor for GQ for nine years.
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If you're coming to my talk tomorrow at #HJ25 @AHCJ, I encourage you to bring a piece of "feedback" (prob from readers, not editors) to share: one of my best tips for getting over comments that get under your skin is to laugh about them with colleagues. This will be fun! https://t.co/HO49ubta0U
RT @IFJGlobal: #Journalism 💡: Tips for freelancers! Ever feel stuck pitching the same types of stories? Fellow journalists like @AnnaMedari…
Should you start a Substack as a #freelancewriter? I talked to former GQ editor Chris Gayomali about his experience for @AHCJ . One (of many) unexpected takeaways: "I really like that ... there’s a whole backend that is very reminiscent of 2015 Twitter." https://t.co/4ulcR7tlAu
