LaHucik takes on biopharma biz beat for Endpoints News

Kyle LaHucik, an associate editor covering the gamut of the biotech industry for Endpoints News, has taken on the role of senior reporter to cover venture capital funding, M&A, IPOs and company creation for the financing and business development side of biopharma. Prior to joining Endpoints, LaHucik was a staff writer at FierceMarkets. Before that, […]

Endpoints News hires Yeung to cover health tech

Endpoints News has hired Ngai Yeung to cover health technology. Yeung, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California, has been interning at The Wall Street Journal this summer. She also interned at Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. Yeung with be working with Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, deputy editor at Endpoints.

How Healthcare Brew reached 100,000 subscriptions

Josh Sternberg, the executive editor of Morning Brew, writes on LinkedIn about how its Healthcare Brew newsletter reached 100,000 subscribers in less than a year. Sternberg writes: But here’s the really cool thing: these subscribers are the exact right subscribers; the right audience. This is what, I think, differentiates what we’re doing. We aren’t playing […]

The Deal seeks a health care reporter

The Deal is looking for an enterprising reporter to cover M&A and private equity in the healthcare sector with a keen eye toward services and technologies that revolutionize the U.S. healthcare system and impact deal flow. The role will sit within a team of reporters based in our New York office and be part of […]

Media Movers: KFF Health News’ Alex Wayne

If our health is a gift, Alex Wayne’s new job might have come with a giant bow. He just took on an exciting role with KFF Health News, which he describes as a “leading nonprofit newsroom covering one of the most chronically undercovered, yet vital subjects for all humans: their health.” [Editor’s note: Whether health is […]

Baumann moving to newsletter editing for Bloomberg Industry

Bloomberg Law health reporter Jeannie Baumann is moving to Bloomberg Government’s newsletter editing team. She has been a senior reporter since July 2020 and at Bloomberg Industry Group since January 2005. Baumann previously worked at the American Health Quality Association as a communications specialist and at The Observer newspapers in Herndon, Virginia. She is a University of […]

Kaiser Health hires Wayne as ME for health policy

Kaiser Health News has hired Bloomberg News senior editor Alex Wayne to be managing editor for health policy and politics. Wayne has been at Bloomberg since April 2010, originally as a national health care reporter covering the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He was also a White House editor and White House team leader. Wayne previously […]

Lee departs Insider for Law360

Law360 has hired Business Insider reporter Yeji Jesse Lee as its senior health care reporter. She has been a health care reporter covering the biotech industry, focusing on the neuroscience, mental health and psychedelics industries. Lee previously covered psychedlics. Previously, she was an editorial fellow and a contract reporter at The (Toronto) Globe and Mail’s Report on Business […]

Wired’s McKenna wins Cohn Prize

Maryn McKenna, senior writer at Wired and a widely published journalist and author specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, has been selected to receive the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. In selecting McKenna from an extraordinarily competitive field of nominees, the judges hailed her reporting and writing […]

NY Times hires STAT senior news editor Thielking

Lori Leibovich, the editor of Well at The New York Times, sent out the following on Thursday: For months, we’ve been searching for a gifted editor to lead Well’s daily news coverage and work with our reporters to further shape our news strategy. We’ve found that person in Megan Thielking. Megan is joining us from […]