Morning Consult seeks editor for health, energy and financial industries

Morning Consult is hiring an experienced editor to lead and manage our data-driven coverage and daily email briefings for the health, energy and financial industries and policy. We are looking for someone with at least several years of experience covering one or more of the policy areas, preferably with management experience. The editor will also […]

Fierce Healthcare seeks a reporter

FierceMarkets, a division of Questex LLC, a B2B online media company based in Washington, D.C., has an immediate opening for an experienced, full-time editor to cover the health care industry for FierceHealthcare.com. This position is based in Washington, D.C. but exceptional applicants may be considered for a telework position. The editor will be responsible for daily […]

STAT News wins ruling on drugmaker’s records

A Kentucky appeals court on Friday upheld a judge’s ruling ordering the release of records about Purdue Pharma’s marketing of the powerful prescription opioid OxyContin, a win for health care industry site STAT News, which had filed a motion to unseal the records. David Armstrong and Andrew Joseph of STAT News report, “The unanimous opinion by a three-judge panel is […]

Mergermarket seeks M&A reporter in health care

Mergermarket, an Acuris company, is looking for a reporter to cover healthcare M&A from our Los Angeles bureau. Candidates should excel in off-diary reporting and be able to write clean copy fast. The position centers on writing forward-looking articles delineating company growth strategies, and scooping the details of deals in progress. A background in finance […]

FiercePharma seeks an industry reporter

FierceMarkets, a division of Questex LLC, an online media company based in Washington, D.C., has an immediate opening for an experienced, fulltime editor to cover the pharmaceuticals industry for FiercePharma.com. This position is based in Washington, D.C. but exceptional applicants may be considered for a telework position. The ideal candidate is a sharp and eager journalist […]

Business Insider hires Court as senior health reporter

Business Insider has hired Emma Court as a senior health care reporter. She started on Monday. 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 to cover the 2016 presidential election. Court also interned at the Dallas Morning News, the Miami Herald […]

Herper of Forbes hired by STAT to cover medicine

Forbes senior editor Matthew Herper has been hired by STAT to cover medicine as a senior writer. He will start in January. Herper has been with Forbes for 18 years, covering science and medicine, from the Human Genome Project through Vioxx to the blossoming DNA technology changing the world today. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from […]

Coverage: GlaxoSmithKline is buying Tesaro for $5 billion

The cancer-focused biotech Tesaro is being acquired by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC for $5.1 billion. Adam Feuerstein of STAT had the news: The deal values Tesaro at $75 per share, or a 63 percent premium to Friday’s closing price. Tesaro’s drug Zejula belongs to a class of cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors that work by blocking an enzyme that […]

Home Health Care News hires Bryant as a reporter

Bailey Bryant has been hired by Home Health Care News, one of Aging Media Network’s publications,  as a reporter. Bryant has been with WCIA-TV in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, for the past 19 months. Bryant received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. As an undergraduate, […]

Modern Healthcare seeks a DC correspondent

Modern Healthcare, the authoritative source for health care business news, is seeking a full-time, Washington, D.C.-based correspondent to cover the health care policy and regulatory beat. Federal and state Medicare and Medicaid programs are a major coverage area for this position. This position will be expected to track policy, rules and regulations created by federal agencies […]