Workshop for Journalists Reporting on Pharmaceutical Products

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this free workshop organized by the Ghost Management Project will help journalists in analyzing and mapping the political economy of influences in the pharmaceutical sector. It will provide tools for reporters eager to conduct rigorous investigations and avoid significant pitfalls that often turn writers into mouthpieces for corporate interests. The workshop will present and discuss Ghost Management at Work: A Practical Guide for the Investigation and Mapping of Health Affairs.

Learn About:

• The challenges faced by journalists investigating health products and interventions, which involve navigating a labyrinth of agents, organizations, and diverse systems that operate in the shadows.
• How to assess claims about a product when the physicians/experts/patients interviewed are often funded by the same drug company.
• How “ghost management”, which encompasses all operations conducted behind the scenes by major companies, shapes knowledge, scientific discourses, and cultural, political, and media narratives regarding specific health products and interventions, while influencing the entire field of medicine and public health.
• How to apply the ghost management interpretive framework, which will help you systematically analyze and map the mechanisms influencing discourse about the products and interventions under investigation.
• How this framework can be applied to other journalistic investigations.

About the Speakers:

Catherine Riva, Investigative journalist, Re-Check.ch

Serena Tinari, Investigative Journalist, Re-Check.ch

Dr. Marc-André Gagnon, pharmaceutical industry expert and professor of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.

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