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Online News Association Conference 2012 coverage
Stories from the annual conference for the world’s largest digital media organization. Read on for interviews with digital journalists who are changing storytelling for the Web from NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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Native Americans work to revitalize California’s indigenous languages
California was once home to over 300 Native American dialects and as many as 90 languages, making it the most linguistically diverse state in the US. Today, only about half of those languages are still with us.
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Volunteers make the wait easier for those on heart transplant list
When you’re on the waiting list you think, ‘Have they forgotten about me?’ But I know they haven’t because Frank keeps calling me and I know I’m still in the registry,” says one woman waiting for a heart transplant.
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Free Clinic stressing HIV testing: Opt-out strategy on consent-to-treat form may boost identifications
In a move to identify those infected with HIV and treat them as early as possible, the Free Clinic will be instituting opt-out HIV testing as part of patients’ physicals. The Clinic also hopes that by placing patients on antiretroviral treatment and decreasing their viral load early, they will reduce the spread of the virus.
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Minds over memory: One family uses creativity to help others cushion the effects of dementia
Father-daughter duo, Charlie Farrell and Katie Norris, provide life-enrichment programming for those living with brain illnesses through the Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation for Brain Health. The foundation is named in honor of their wife and mother Carol who is battling dementia.
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Turning down hospital noise boosts healing power of quiet: UH project aims to improve patient comfort
University Hospitals nurse Kathleen Vidal hopes to silence the culture of noise in hospitals. She recently led a pilot project to reduce noise on floors of UH’s Lerner Tower.
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