Higgins-Dun rejoining CNBC to cover pharma and health
FiercePharma reporter Noah Higgins-Dunn is returning to CNBC.com to cover pharmaceuticals and health. He had joined FiercePharma earlier this year. He will start at CNBC next week. Higgins-Dunn was a digital associate for CNBC.com covering the coronavirus. As a health and science reporter, he has covered breaking national news from the Trump administration and pharmaceutical companies racing […]
Politico names Goldberg deputy health care editor
Politico has promoted Dan Goldberg to the post of deputy health care editor. Previously, he was a health care reporter covering health care politics and policy in the states. Before that, he covered New York State health care. Prior to joining Politico, Goldberg was a health care reporter for the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Goldberg holds […]
Fortune health care reporter Mukherjee is leaving
Sy Mukherjee, who covers health care for Fortune magazine, is leaving the publication at the end of the month. “In fact, I’m leaving journalism altogether after 9 years as a health reporter to launch an exciting, and very different, new chapter,” he wrote on Twitter. Mukherjee has been with Fortune since March 2016 and also […]
Fierce Biotech seeks a reporter
Fierce Biotech is seeking a sharp and eager journalist to join our expanding team. We are looking for a reporter to deliver regular scoops and a steady flow of features that put the news in context for our readers. This beat focuses on biotech companies from startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises—the venture capital they raise and IPOs […]
What news organizations could have withstood Theranos’ threats?
Timothy Noah of The New Republic writes about the threats that defunct blood testing company Theranos made against The Wall Street Journal and wonders what other news organizations would have withstood such pressue. Noah writes, “How many news organizations in the United States would have been in a financial position even to consider publishing such a […]
Politico seeks a health care reporter in DC
Politico is seeking an experienced journalist to join our health care team and lead coverage of the Biden administration’s efforts on Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act – programs that shape the lives of most Americans. This reporter will focus on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services headquarters in Washington and the relationship […]
Vice health care reporter Smothers departs for grad school
Hannah Smothers, a senior staff writer at Vice covering health and health care, is leaving to pursue an MFA in fiction at Texas State University. Smothers plans to freelance during her time at grad school. Previously, she has worked at Cosmopolitan Magazine, Fusion and Texas Monthly. She has also freelanced for Daily Dot and New […]
Buffalo News seeks a business of health care reporter
The Buffalo News seeks a reporter to cover how the health care industry is reshaping Western New York. Buffalo is a city experiencing an economic revival. At the center of the story is a burgeoning medical sector with big, competitive employers, startups seeking to capitalize on medical innovation and a growing medical campus. How the […]
Wired hires McKenna as a senior writer
Wired magazine has hired Maryn McKenna as a senior writer for health, covering all aspects of public health, global health, medicine and disease. She previously has been working part-time at the magazine covering COVID-19 stories. As a newspaper reporter, she worked for 10 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she was the only U.S. journalist assigned to […]
Forbes reporter Rosenbaum leaving magazine
Forbes magazine health care reporter Leah Rosenbaum is leaving the news organization at the end of the week. “I’m leaving for a few reasons, but the biggest is burnout from covering the pandemic daily for the last 18 months,” she wrote on Twitter. Rosenbaum has been at Forbes since January 2019, first as an assistant editor for […]
