Selling drugs — with a little help from a journalist

doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7323.1258a

From trainee to consultant, BMJ Group offers doctors around the world tailored information, special events, learning resources and recruitment services at every step along their career path.

... by doctors, for doctors, for patients
We are open for entries!

Online learning

BMJ Learning

High-quality CME / CPD for doctors and other healthcare professionals. BMJ Learning features hundreds of accredited, peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats. Find out more

Courses and Qualifications

BMJ Masterclasses

BMJ Masterclasses, led by experts, help clinicians to use the latest evidence and recent guidelines in practice and meet their CPD/CME requirements. Find out more

Exam Preparation

The leading provider of online exam preparation, helping over 167,000 healthcare professionals to pass their exams. Find out more

onExamination

Search all BMJ research articles:

From

Limit by

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

Rob Burton, freelance journalist,
Bob Burton, freelance journalist

Canberra, Australia
Canberra, Australia

How exactly are journalists recruited to work on behalf of corporate clients? An advertisement placed earlier this year by public relations firm Chandler Chicco Agency offers an insight.

In August, CCA was seeking to hire a freelance journalist to attend a diabetes conference. Brynn Thomas from the New York office of CCA, a specialist in public relations for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, arranged for a small ad to be distributed to a jobs email list of US science writers. “Healthcare public relations agency is seeking a freelance journalist to attend the EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) meeting in Glasgow, September 9-13, 2001,” the ad read. …