August 16th, 2017
Podcast 210: Jerome Kassirer — an editor looks back
Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer served as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991 to 1999. Almost 20 years later, Kassirer looks back on his life and his time as editor in a new autobiography, titled “Unanticipated Outcomes” — and in a conversation with us. Links: Kassirer editorial on managed care. Kassirer on the digital transformation […]
March 15th, 2016
Podcast 199: Rethinking what medical journals do
There’s change in the air about science publishing, and Harlan Krumholz, the founding editor of the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, thinks it’s time to reimagine the whole concept of what a journal is and what it does. He poured his ideas into an editorial, “The End of Journals,” which he published as he approached […]