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 […]
SABEW names 16 journalists for health care symposium
Sixteen journalists were selected to attend SABEW’s 2024 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C., Oct. 20-22. Throughout the three-day program, fellows will take a deep dive with experts and veteran reporters into some of the big issues facing U.S. health care, from the growing impact of private equity ownership, to the ways in which blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss […]
Star Tribune hires Carlson as team leader in business
Joe Carlson has returned to the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a team leader in the business news department. He is managing a team of reporters and columnist Evan Ramstad. Carlson worked as a senior researcher with Blue Heron Research Partners, doing qualitative due diligence work on companies in health care and other fields. He previously covered Minnesota’s […]
Star Tribune hires Stefanescu to cover med tech
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has hired Viktor Stefanescu to cover medical technology. For the past year, he has interned at The Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe covering business topics. He also interned at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Stefanescu is a graduate of Boston College.
Globe and Mail’s Hannay to focus on health coverage
Globe and Mail business reporter Chris Hannay will take on a new focus as part of his independent business beat, training his sights on health. Although Canada has universal public health insurance, much of the system is powered by private business, from doctor’s offices to pharmaceuticals. He will look at issues such as how business […]
KFF Health News hires Mai-Duc as a reporter
KFF Health News has hired Christine Mai-Duc to cover health policy and politics in California. She starts Oct. 8. Mai-Duc previously was a reporter covering state politics, housing and the economy from The Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau. Her stories highlight nation-leading policies and trends in the nation’s most populous state and largest economy, examine the causes and […]
SABEW seeks health care symposium applicants
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing is seeking applicants for its 2024 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C. The fellowship will give journalists a chance to take a deep dive with experts and veteran reporters into some of the big issues facing U.S. health care, from the growing impact of private equity ownership, to […]
Bloomberg Government hires Vu to cover health policy
Bloomberg Government has hired Nancy Vu to cover health policy. Vu is currently an energy and environment reporter for the Washington Examiner. Before coming to the Washington Examiner, she was a Congress reporter for Politico. She started at the company as an editorial intern to the sustainability team and helped to cover a number of environmental issues, […]
STAT News taps Lawrence to cover the FDA
STAT News has named Lizzy Lawrence its FDA reporter, leading coverage of the preeminent food and medicines regulator for the news organization. Lawrence is based in Washington. Lawrence most recently covered the medical device industry for STAT, where she reported on a medical-device company that implanted fake plastic parts into patients, and another that sent people endless batteries to […]
