Business Insider seeks a pharma/biotech reporter

Business Insider is looking for an experienced reported to cover the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. It’s a time of rapid innovation and big challenges for the industry, creating lots of opportunities for an ambitious reporter to make a mark in this role. Advances like personalized medicine and artificial intelligence could upend how we find new […]

Senior health reporter Court departs Business Insider

Business Insider senior health care reporter Emma Court has left the news organization. “I’m so grateful for a wonderful year here and even more wonderful colleagues,” she wrote on Twitter. “Will have more to share soon.” Court previously spent three years at MarketWatch.com as a health care reporter. Before that, she interned in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, helping […]

Alder moves to judiciary beat at Bloomberg Law

Madison Alder, a health care reporter at Bloomberg Law, is moving to the judiciary beat. She also has covered benefits and compensation at Bloomberg Law, where she started in July 2017. Alder worked for The Arizona Republic and Bloomberg as an intern when she was in college. She is a graduate of Arizona State University. […]

Modern Healthcare seeks a DC reporter

Modern Healthcare, the preeminent source for healthcare business news, is seeking an experienced reporter to cover healthcare policy and politics. This position reports, writes and produces for all Modern Healthcare print and digital publications and is expected to generate other forms of editorial content including but not limited to blog posts, podcasts, video, webcasts and […]

MarketWatch seeks a reporter to cover health care

MarketWatch seeks a reporter to cover the health-care sector, including pharmaceutical and biotech, medical technology and health insurance companies. The reporter will seek to explain to an audience of professional and retail investors/ consumers how companies are dealing with changes in policy and hardening public attitudes to such issues as rising drug prices and the […]

How CNBC’s Farr ferrets out good health tech stories

CNBC health and technology reporter Christina Farr spoke with Dr. Josh Luke on his “Dr. Luke’s Waiting Room” podcast about how she finds stories and determining how to report stories on her beat. Farr said she likes to frame her stories around people. “One of the things that is a guiding principle for me and […]

Reuters hires Spalding to cover health care M&A

Reuters has hired Bloomberg News reporter Rebecca Spalding to cover mergers and acquisitions in health care, biopharmaceuticals and industrial industries. She will be based out of New York. “Thank you all for your kind words in the last few days! It’s a great team and I’m excited for the new challenge,” she wrote on Twitter. […]

Pierson, ex-Reuters pharma reporter, dies at 66

Ransdell Pierson, who covered the pharmaceutical industry for Reuters from 1993 to 2017, died last week at the age of 66. An obituary states. “He attended Louisiana State University and The University of Missouri where he graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism. “Ransdell was a reporter at the New York Post from 1983-1993. As […]

Biotech reporter Spalding departs Bloomberg

Rebecca Spalding, a biotech reporter at Bloomberg News, has left the organization. On Twitter, Spalding wrote, “I will have something new to say soon but for now, I’m reflecting fondly on the time I spent here and the wonderful colleagues I met here. I’m so proud to have started my journalism career at Bloomberg.” Spalding […]

NPR seeks pharma correspondent

A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – our employees do too. Innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. […]