Jaclyn Schiff is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She is a staff writer and web producer for a Web site that focuses on global health issues. When she's not writing about tuberculosis or malaria, she freelances for a variety of news sources. Her articles have been published by AllAfrica.com, CBSNews.com, FrontPage Magazine, the New York Times, Women eNews, U-Wire and the Washington Jewish Week.
In 2006, Jaclyn graduated cum laude from George Washington University with a B.A. in International Affairs and a minor in journalism. During her junior year, she was the news director at the campus radio station WRGW, which she often refers to as a highlight of her college experience. Jaclyn was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She can do a convincing Nelson Mandela imitation, even though she often denies it.
Jaclyn's blog is The Schiff Report.
What does World Health Day have to do with climate change and neckties? A lot.
“Protecting Health From Climate Change” is the theme of this year’s World Health Day, which is being marked by the World Health Organization today in an effort to highlight the link between human health and climate change. The goal of the […]
The introduction to Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success describes how careers are changing. Trunk writes that Generation Y workers “demand control and flexibility” in their careers, and she points to the fact that 40% of all new businesses are started by people younger than 35.
We also know that millennials aren’t too […]
Just a few months ago, my occasional blog perusing past time turned into an avid, daily blog reading-and-participating habit. While there’s a lot of noise on the blogosphere and it can be extremely challenging to filter it effectively, there’s a ton of insight as well.To get the most out of blogs, it’s necessary to […]
Ryan Healy recently blogged about how online tools have a definite downside. Ryan writes, “I’ve noticed that a lot of the social media and Web 2.0 tools I use are becoming more of a chore then a help. In fact, I’m starting to think that most social media services are nothing more than fancy looking […]
Information available on the Internet is helping to minimize risky situations, while providing an ongoing peer-reviewed handbook for life.
It’s providing the check on government and other institutions that the press once did. In the past, people couldn’t access raw data easily. Reporters put in the time to gather information and aggregate the facts. Today, Google […]
Globally, the diet and fitness is big business. In the U.S. alone, people spend about $35 million a year on weight-loss products, according to a CBS News article and if obesity trends are anything to go by, the diet industry will continue to thrive for the foreseeable future.
Stories of yo-yo dieters and products that produce […]
If you’re a millennial, then odds are that you know someone who blogs or has blogged. About 12 million Americans are blogging, according to a 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and more than half of them are under the age of 30. The number of blogs is continually increasing as […]
Not only are Americans dumb, but they’re getting dumber and on top of it all, they’re accepting of their ignorance too. That’s American culture for you in a nutshell, at least according to Susan Jacoby, the author of book The Age of American Unreason, which was released last month. In a recent New York Times […]
Recently, I started thinking about how company size affects work experience after talking to a friend about his new job. He is one of five employees at his office and there are no satellite offices in other cities.
I was intrigued because I’ve never worked at a company that small. I’ve had some internship experiences at […]
Since HIV/AIDS was first identified in the United States in the early 1980s, the costs associated with treatment and prevention efforts have been steep and they keep rising. According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the U.S. government had spent more than $100 billion combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2002. The House Foreign Affairs […]
