STAT News reporter Merelli among the layoffs
STAT News reporter Annalisa Merelli is among the layoffs at the health care news organization. Before joining STAT in 2023, she had been at Quartz for nine years, starting as a reporter on the Ideas team. She also covered COVID-19 with a focus on its impact on inequality, ongoing health crises, and the healthcare industry Merelli also […]
Bloomberg seeks a health care reporter in DC
The US is wrestling with skyrocketing health-care costs in a fractured system. Health has been politicized. Coverage decisions are driven by business interests. From insurance to drug prices to obesity, healthcare is at the forefront of readers’ minds. Bloomberg News is looking for an ambitious news breaker to cover the biggest national health stories at […]
Health Affairs editor Weil is departing for AARP
Health Affairs announced that Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will leave his role at the end of the year. On Jan. 6, 2025, Weil will become senior vice president for public policy at AARP. Health Affairs has changed significantly during Weil’s more than 10-year tenure. In 2022, Health Affairs launched a new open access journal, “Health Affairs […]
Bloomberg Law’s Kramer departing after 10 years
Bloomberg Law assistant team leader Alexis Kramer is leaving the news organization after a decade for a new opportunity. She has been working on the health and employment team. Kramer joined Bloomberg Industry Group in December 2014 as a senior legal editor to cover legal and regulatory issues in the technology and telecom sectors. She won two […]
Ravindranath among the layoffs at STAT News
STAT News reporter Mohana Ravindranath is among the layoffs at the health care news organization. She joined in late 2021 and covered health tech. She previously worked at Insider and Politico. She also worked at Nextgov, Atlantic Media’s site for IT and government technology news, focusing on civilian agency technology and IT policy, with an eye toward Capitol Hill […]
Endpoints hires Cairns as senior reporter
Endpoints News has hired Elizabeth Cairns as a senior reporter covering the biopharma beat. She will start next week and be based in London. Cairns is currently a senior writer at Scrips. She has covered the pharma, biotech and medtech sectors in a variety of roles over the years. She moved to Scrip in 2023 from Vantage, […]
WSJ seeks a health care reporter
The Wall Street Journal seeks an enterprising and ambitious reporter to cover the intersection of the U.S. health care system and its patients, focusing on hospitals, pharmacies and pharmacy-benefit managers. This is a critical time to be reporting on these powerful companies and nonprofits, which account for the lion’s share of America’s $4.8 trillion in […]
Forbes senior editor Feldman switches to health care
Forbes senior editor Amy Feldman is now covering health care. She had been covering industrial innovation and climate technology. She co-authored the Current Climate newsletter and edits the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. She’s written features on greenhouse gas smuggling, the founder of HeyDude shoes, the billionaire automating Walmart’s warehouses and Bell Labs’ 1970s ‘Red Father’ chatbot. Before rejoining Forbes in 2016, she wrote for […]
WSJ reporter Evans departs for Tradeoffs
Wall Street Journal reporter Melanie Evans has left the news organization for Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization focused on health policy. She will start on Nov. 18. Evans covered the hospital industry for The Journal in New York. She reported on the business of running hospitals, healthcare quality and the ways technology is changing both. Her stories […]
Berke of STAT News on the importance of its coverage
Rick Berke, a co-founded and executive editor of STAT News, writes about the importance of its science and health care coverage. Berke writes, “We are at a unique moment in our country’s history, when an understanding of the issues that STAT covers is more relevant than ever before — to both our personal lives and […]
