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LA Times hires Purtill to cover science and medicine

Corinne Purtill

Corinne Purtill has joined the Los Angeles Times as a science and medicine reporter. She has covered behavior, aging, science and technology as a freelancer for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and more.

Purtill worked as a senior reporter at Quartz, focusing on behavioral psychology, science, health, and work-life issues. She was also a senior correspondent at GlobalPost and a reporter at The Arizona Republic.

She previously covered politics, immigrant populations, crime and social issues as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Post’s community newspapers.

Purtill has a B.A. in English from Stanford University.

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