Deborah Cohen is an award-winning investigative medical reporter that also owns a university degree in medicine. She was editor investigations for the British Medical Journal for seven years and is now with BBC Newsnight. In the last months, she has been intensively reporting about COVID-19. More: https://www.drdeborahcohen.com/about/
In 2017 Deborah Cohen received the prestigious 2017 HealthWatch Award for “courageous reporting of medical issues” in recognition of her ability to clarify “complicated and often misunderstood medical matters for the general public”. Her stories for BBC Newsnight stand out as scientifically solid and yet understandable for a wide public. In this panel, she’ll tell us how you can stick to an evidence-based approach and still keep your audiences glued to the screen. She’ll share tips on how to keep your investigative journalism jargon-free, and accurate; she’ll drive us through the methods she used to investigate the case of Leicester in the UK, and how she has been digging deeper on the ups and downs of SARS-CoV-2 tests.