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 […]

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 […]