(Newswire.net — June 17, 2013) — What do salmonella in food, loose gun laws and risky prescription drugs have in common? Everything, says reporter Martha Rosenberg, who covers the impact of the gigantic food, drug and gun industries on public health and US consumers.
Relying on whistleblowers, exclusive sources and award-winning investigative journalism, Rosenberg is a leading critic of irresponsible corporations and dangerous consumer products. As well as at NewsBlaze, her work appears in publications like Consumers Digest, Prevention, and Salon and she has been a guest on C-SPAN, National Public Radio, the Ed Schulz show, HuffPost Live and other TV and radio shows. She is also an editorial cartoonist and has served as the staff cartoonist for the Evanston RoundTable, a Chicago suburban newspaper, for over a decade.
Rosenberg’s first book, Born with a Junk Food Deficiency (Prometheus 2012), with 30 cartoons, offers in-depth reports on overmedication of Iraq/Afghanistan era troops, unethical marketing toward women and children and hypochondria created by television drug advertising. Born also exposes conditions in the nation’s slaughterhouses and egg farms and reveals disturbing, behind-the-scenes information about GMO and clone foods that are present in the food supply. Rosenberg also zeroes in on the causes of such unsafe products – the conflicts of interest between industry and regulatory agencies – and names names.
A former medical copywriter and medical school lecturer, Rosenberg’s work has been praised by the Public Library of Science and cited by the Sloan-Kettering library. Born with a Junk Food Deficiency was named in the American Society of Journalists and Authors 2013 Outstanding Book Awards and praised by the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Life, Today’s Chicago Woman, New City, Library Journal and other outlets.
“With little page space wasted on moralizing and theorizing, this book gets straight to the heart of the problem and produces facts, numbers, and hard evidence to delve into the not-so-appealing topic of public health,” wrote the Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review.
See the review on the book in NewsBlaze story: The Drugstore in Your Meat and Other Table Top Terrors.
Martha Rosenberg is the Senior NewsBlaze Investigative Health Reporter. She has been an important part of the NewsBlaze team since sending her first story to us in December 2006. Her work can be seen on the Martha Rosenberg profile page.
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