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Jacqui, a member of the Medical Journalists’ Association, freelances mainly for national newspapers and magazines. Recently she has been commissioned by the Observer, the Times, Cosmopolitan, the Telegraph and the Sun. However she writes for a real mix, writing regularly for Pharmaceutical Marketing, and also Community Care and Press Gazette. She is also involved in new media, taking part in a Doctors.net podcast on the way medics are represented in print. Recent articles: The Times The Telegraph The Guardian British Journal of Cardiology PM magazine
Health While at the Sun the paper won the Cancer Research Campaign Media Award of Excellence 2001 and the Communicator of the Year Award 2007. She wrote the three-day series ''The Thornton Audit' – a hard-hitting analysis of whether extra cash had helped the NHS; whistleblowers in the health service; and how one hospital was reforming to help patients. Exclusives include 'Locked Up for Being Fat' – the tragic story of a man with Prader-Willi syndrome who was sectioned against his will and taken from his home by police because he would not stop eating. Campaigns Foreign Reporting Following the SARS crisis, Jacqui travelled to Hong Kong for a two-day series in the Sun on how the former British colony was coping with the crisis. She also reported from the Metropole hotel where the illness started. Jacqui filed from Uganda for the Sunday Telegraph on a little boy who lived in a terrace in Lewisham who was actually the King of Toro. Jacqui was invited by the ‘Queen Mother’ to cover his crowning ceremony witnessed by hundreds of dignitaries and subjects. She later had an audience with President Yoweri Museveni. Jacqui flew to Bermuda for the Sunday Express to report on the British colony’s referendum on independence from the UK in 1996 and interviewed the Governor, former Home Secretary Lord Waddington. Millennium Front Pages She has also had a number of splashes in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Sunday Express. Click here to see more of Jacqui’s work.
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