Business Insider promotes de Graaf to deputy executive editor

Mia de Graaf has been promoted to a deputy executive editor at Business Insider. In this role, she continues to oversee health and health care coverage across the newsroom. She is now also in charge of features for the Life department, directing long-form stories on lifestyle and culture topics, including food, relationships, wellness, celebrities, internet […]

Bloomberg seeks a pharma reporter

From Covid vaccines to obesity medications, big pharma has brought the world remarkable innovations over the past decade. But it’s come at a steep cost. Drug prices are skyrocketing, adding to Americans’ ever-increasing medical bills. Bloomberg News is looking for an ambitious news breaker to cover the biggest US drug companies: Pfizer, J&J, Bristol-Myers and […]

San Antonio Express-News seeks business of health care reporter

The San Antonio Express-News is seeking a versatile journalist with knowledge of healthcare including public health, business and regulation to cover the industry as a member of its Business reporting team. It’s a big job: Healthcare and biosciences employ one of every six residents and generated an annual economic impact of $42.4 billion in 2020, […]

Foley departs Politico for Smoke-Free World Foundation

Politico reporter Katherine Foley has left the publication to become director of media relations at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. She had been covering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She previously worked at Quartz, where she covered health and science issues for the past six years. Foley holds a master’s in journalism from NYU’s Science, Health […]

Boston Biz Journal reporter Green switches to life sciences beat

Boston Business Journal reporter Hannah Green is now covering biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. She has been covering technology. Green, a native of Massachusetts, graduated from Boston University in December 2021 with a master’s degree in journalism. Green was an investigative-reporting intern at GBH News and project manager in Boston University’s Justice Media Co-Lab, managing student […]

Columbus Dispatch seeks a business of health care reporter

The Columbus Dispatch / dispatch.com , located in the fastest-growing city in the Midwest and part of the USA TODAY NETWORK , is seeking an aggressive, digitally savvy medical and business of health care reporter. This beat will focus on trending health and wellness topics, such as flu and COVID, politically sensitive issues such as […]

Politico health care reporter Furlong departs

Ashleigh Furlong, a health care reporter at Politico, has left. She wrote on X/Twitter: “I’ve loved working with some of the smartest, most collaborative journalists out there and I’m incredibly grateful to the sources who’ve shared their time and insights with me over the last four years. Details on the next adventure in 2024!” Previously, […]

McKenna among the Wired layoffs

Wired magazine senior writer Maryn McKenna, who has been covering public health, global health, medicine and disease, was among the layoffs this week. “I expect to return to freelancing, and maybe widen my scope to consulting and beyond,” she wrote on LinkedIn. McKenna previously worked for 10 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she was […]

Fortune seeks a health and wellness reporter

Fortune is seeking an ambitious and creative journalist for our wellness vertical to develop top-notch, science-backed service content that inspires readers to optimize their health and well-being. Fortune Well covers a wide range of topics including chronic conditions, brain health, nutrition, exercise, mental health, workplace wellness, and healthy aging. The ideal candidate is passionate about […]

Zipp returns to Med Tech Dive as an editor

Ricky Zipp has returned to Med Tech Dive as an editor. He had been at Morning Consult as a health care reporter for the past year. Before that, Zipp was a reporter at MedTech Dive. Previously, he was a health care policy reporter at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he covered state health care policy, the hospital […]