Continuing our series of journalist video interviews, we spoke with Dr David Cox, a neuroscientist by background and a specialist health/medical journalist. David’s work has featured in publications including New Scientist, the Telegraph, the BBC, the Guardian, NBC News, and WIRED.

In this final part of our three-part video series, David takes us behind the commissioning decisions that shape modern health and science coverage, and explains what has quietly changed over the past decade.

In this video, he discusses:

– What newspapers now prioritise, and why reader metrics increasingly call the shots
– The knock-on effect of AI and social platforms on the stories that make the cut
– Why medtech and innovation have given way to a consumer health boom