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Politico health tech reporter Reader departs

March 16, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Ruth Reader

Politico health tech reporter Ruth Reader has left to join Christina Farr’s Second Opinion media company.

Reader will also be working on longer-term projects for Hunterbrook Media.

She previously had been a health technology reporter at Fast Company magazine for nearly six years.

Reader also worked at Mic and at VentureBeat. She also was a digital media producer for New York Public Radio and a producer for Voice of America Radio. She also spent four years as a contributing writer to Baltimore City Paper.

Reader holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in Chicago.

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