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Crain’s New York seeks health care reporter

Crain’s New York Business is looking for a full-time, data-savvy health care business journalist to join a team that produces an award-winning daily subscription newsletter, health care data, daily news online and in-depth, magazine length features in print. This is a job for an energetic reporter who wants to be at the center of one of the city’s most important industries.

As part of a three-person team, the reporter’s main responsibility is to report several daily news items for the Crain’s Health Pulse, the go-to resource for players in the city’s sprawling and complex health care sector. The team also conceives and implements data projects for Pulse that run twice a week. The ideal candidate will artfully juggle breaking news and industry stories for Pulse with longer analysis and features for the daily website and the print edition of Crain’s.

Recent topics covered include: hospital mergers, expansions, bankruptcies and closures; New York State’s Medicaid reforms; health tech startups; medical marijuana; funding in the health care space; insurers; the economics of medical education; changing job roles within health care; state and federal legislation; and labor issues.

This is an ideal job for a reporter looking for career growth who’s eager to sink his/her teeth into the politics and policy of a complex beat, develop sources and find stories that no one else is reporting, or find local angles on national stories.

Crain’s also produces two health care conferences annually. The reporter will have a role in shaping the conferences and should be comfortable with public speaking and moderating. There also is opportunity for video journalism.

Requirements
•         Strong organizational and communication skills with keen attention to detail and problem solving
•         Ability to pitch, report and write clear and engaging news stories on a complex topic
•         Ability to find breaking news stories in government, nonprofit, financial and other sources of data
•         Ability to manage multiple projects with a variety of deadlines
•         Ability to work as part of a close knit, supportive team
•         Enthusiasm for business journalism, and not only consumer-oriented coverage of health care
•         A clear head under tight deadlines and in breaking-news situations
•         Can tackle financial documents like income statements and tax forms

Strongly preferred
•         Experience reporting on health care
•         Facility with numbers and basic data analysis skills
•         Eagerness to sink your teeth into a beat

Send clips, a resume and a cover letter to executive editor Jeremy Smerd at jsmerd@crainsnewyork.com

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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