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 […]

Bloomberg taps Griffin to cover the pharma beat

Bloomberg News has tapped Riley Ray Griffin as its new pharmaceuticals industry reporter. Griffin has been with Bloomberg since June, first as an intern and then as a full-time reporter. She graduated earlier this year from Duke University, where she studied international relations and policy journalism. She spent time on campus working for the Reporters’ Lab, a […]

Idaho Biz Review launches tech newsletter, revives health care coverage

The Idaho Business Review is launching a new technology email newsletter and reviving coverage of the health care industry. Editor Kim Burgess writes, “Reporter Sharon Fisher will be primarily responsible for the technology email newsletter, which will be delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. Fisher is a tech industry veteran who spent two decades in Silicon […]

MedCity launches community for health care startups

MedCity News, which covers the business of health care, has launched a membership-based community called MedCitizens for health care startups to help them be found by venture capitalists, industry partners and hospital executives. Vice president and editorial director Arundhati Parmar writes, “For nearly a decade now, MedCity News has had a singular focus: to cover innovation […]

Biotech investor sues Boston Globe’s STAT

Sam Isaly, the biotech investor who for years led OrbiMed Advisors until leaving the firm over sexual harassment claims, is suing health care news site STAT for reporting about his behavior, reports Michelle Cortez and Jeff Feeley of Bloomberg News. Cortez and Feeley write, “In a lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, Isaly sued Boston Globe Media Partners […]

Washington Post hires Rowland to cover business of health care

Washington Post national economy and business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and business assignment editor Suzanne Goldenberg sent out the following announcement on Friday: We’re delighted to announce that Christopher Rowland, the Washington bureau chief of the Boston Globe, will join us to cover the business of health care. The job marks a […]

Reuters adds Terhune, Schectman to pharma/health team

Elyse Tanouye, global industry editor for pharma and health care at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Friday: Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce two additions to the Pharma/Health team: Chad Terhune, joining us from Kaiser Health News, and our colleague Joel Schectman. Based in Los Angeles, Chad will break exclusive news and work on […]

Health care site STAT looks for more group subscriptions

Health care site STAT is looking to grow its group subscription business, reports Laura Hazard Owen of Nieman Journalism Lab. Owen writes, “Nearly three years in, the audience for Stat — and its premium membership product, the $299/year (or $35/month) Stat Plus — is becoming more clear. It turns out, not surprisingly, that most of the […]

San Fernando Valley Biz Journal seeks a reporter

San Fernando Valley Business Journal seeks an experienced business reporter who can write short, long and web-oriented stories. We are looking for a reporter to cover the biotech, health care and law sectors. Our coverage area in northern Los Angeles County includes the entertainment centers of Burbank and Studio City, the biotech corridor of the […]