Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal’s Informed Patient columnist and an assistant managing editor, is among those who are leaving the paper on Thursday due to taking the buyout offer.
She is also the author of “Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer.”
Landro joined the New York bureau of the Journal in 1981 as a reporter covering the entertainment, cable and publishing industries and was named marketing and media editor in May 1991. She assumed her current position in November 2001. She also writes the Health Matters column for the Encore section, is a contributor to WSJ special reports on health care innovation, and is an editorial host for the WSJ CEO Council overseeing the health care panel.
Landro is the recipient of the Gerald Loeb award for deadline reporting and the New York Women in Communications, Inc. Matrix Award in the newspaper category, honoring her achievements in journalism.
Her story, “Dose of Prevention: Six Prescriptions To Ease Rationing In U.S. Health Care” was one of a series of seven Journal articles awarded the 2004 prize from the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation, which recognizes excellence in health-care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and impact of health-care policy. The series was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2004.
Landro began her journalism career with McGraw-Hill World News in London and worked as a full-time correspondent and editor for the McGraw-Hill Energy Newsletter Group before joining Business Week magazine as a staff editor.
Landro received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.
