Interviews
Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari are at times being interviewed by journalists about their work as investigative researchers and journalists in the field of public health and medicine. Many of these interviews feature Re-Check publications, and its mission and ethics. This is a collection of some of the interviews published in different languages, platforms and countries.
8 April 2022 Ralf Hutter interviewed Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari for https://mmm.verdi.de, the online magazine of the German journalists’ labor union DJU. The article features the GIJN Health Guide they authored, and Re-Check mission and work. “Buchtipp: Recherche zu medizinischen Themen” (What to read: investigate medicine) is available here.
29 March 2022 Episode 11 of Radio Libertà podcast with Serena Tinari: “Il problema con il giornalismo pandemico”. Uncut and open access. In Italian.
19 March 2022 Italian Journalist Martina Pastorelli interviewed Serena Tinari. Pastorelli’s independent and open-access productions are published as 2 minutes clips over months, and finally in full uncut version. In Italian. Watch here.
28 February 2022 Long format and uncut. Martin Bernard and Ouriel Barbezat of Anti|thèse interviewed Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari for over two hours and the result is online, in open access. They talked about pandemic journalism, COVID-19 evidence-free policies, social media censorship, the shameful silencing of critical voices, the smearing campaign against real experts, the “function creep” potential of COVID certificates, how science and regulation used to work – imperfect but in hindsight reasonable – before these two years of madness. And much more. In French. COVID-19. Fin de partie?
1 July 2021 Interview with Serena Tinari by Radio Onda d’Urto on Re-Check’s mission, and pandemic journalism. Listen to the recordings (in Italian).
10 April 2021 Forward published an interview with Serena Tinari by Tiziano Costantini featuring pandemic journalism and how communication in COVID-19 times is letting down both the public and the scientific methodology, by conveying context-free and not evidence-based information. “How did communication change with COVID-19?”. Available in English and Italian.
10 March 2021 IlMitte.com interviewed Serena Tinari about Re-Check methodology and pandemic journalism. In Italian, “Tutti hanno diritto alla verità” (Everyone has a right to the truth).
8 February 2021 Alexandra Breaud article about Re-Check’s methodology was published by Soins infirmiers, the monthly of the Swiss professional association of nursing professionals SBK-ASI. Breaud had participated to Catherine Riva presentation organised by the nurses’ accredited Swiss training center Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source. Lausanne (CH). In French, “Le traitement journalistique des questions sanitaires. La santé au prisme des médias” (Journalism on health issues. Health through the media lens).
29 November 2019 HealthLEADS (formerly Health Analytics Asia) is an initiative of DataLEADS, an India-based digital media company that specializes in data-driven content. It has published on its website an extensive interview with Serena Tinari about Re-Check ethics and standards, how to dig deeper on health and medicine, and what are the main issues to be considered when approaching this field. With the title “Overdiagnosis is one of the biggest threats to our health systems”, the article is available here.
27 September 2019 Anne Sofie Hoffmann Schrøder wrote for the website of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) the article “Pro Tips for Health and Medicine Journalism”, featuring also Serena Tinari and Re-Check’s advice on how to dig deeper in the field of public health and medicine. The article is available in English, here.
