As PR professionals, it’s our job to stay on top of the news so that we can find relevant story angles and leverage hot topics to guide our media relations outreach for clients. In the healthcare space, we are fortunate to have a number of great publications we read and work with every day, including Healthcare IT News, Becker’s Hospital Review and Medical Economics, to name a few.

But, besides reading the trades every day, there are other traditional and non-traditional outlets we turn to to learn more about the politics of healthcare, to take a deeper dive on a particular topic or to get the breaking news as it happens. Here are some of the sources we tap to stay “in the know” on all the latest and greatest issues in healthcare:

As PR professionals, much of what we do is reading, absorbing, and decoding news. What we read in the media plays a large role in creating our foundation for reality, so knowing now to analyze the accuracy of reporting is vital, especially during a pandemic. Here are a few tips that have helped me distinguish fake or misleading news and data from the real deal: