Tennessean hires Hitson for business news desk
The Tennessean has hired Hadley Hitson as a business reporter covering health care and dining. Hitson was previously at the Montgomery Advertiser where she was named 2024 emerging journalist for Alabama by the Alabama Press Association. She has been covering Alabama’s Black Belt communities — their access to health care, education, technology and other stories. […]
Bloomberg Law hires Clason to cover health benefits
Bloomberg Law has hired Lauren Clason to cover health benefits. She has been a health care reporter for Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call for seven years. She previously spent a year at The Hill, also covering health care. Clason also worked at Atlantic Information Services covering health care issues. She is a graduate of Indiana University.
Modern Healthcare hires Early to cover regulators
Modern Healthcare has hired Bridget Early to cover health care regulators. She is currently a health care reporter and managing editor for Inside Health Policy covering health policy developments at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as on the Hill, at the White House and in the Supreme Court. Her areas of focus include Medicare […]
Health care reporter Clason departs CQ/Roll Call
Lauren Clason, a health care reporter for Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call, left this week for a new opportunity. Clason has been with the publications for seven years. She previously spent a year at The Hill, also covering health care. Clason also worked at Atlantic Information Services covering health care issues. She is a graduate […]
Bloomberg, AppliedXL launch AI-powered biotech news feed
Bloomberg and AppliedXl have launched an artificial intelligence-powered real-time news feed covering biotech for terminal clients. Bloomberg terminal users will be alerted to issues in clinical trials of new drugs and other events that may move the markets. They will also get analysis of how those issues impact an individual company as well as related […]
Fierce Healthcare promotes Landi to executive editor
Fierce Healthcare has promoted Heather Landi to executive editor. She has been a senior editor. Landi is responsible for the entire daily Fierce Healthcare brand and related team of editors. She also oversees the team’s coverage of health IT and digital health news and trends across the country. She has covered the healthcare technology market for […]
STAT News wins awards for health insurance coverage
STAT News executive editor Rick Berke posted the following: Dear Readers, Please bear with me as I brag about two of STAT’s most accomplished (and humble) reporters: Casey Ross and Bob Herman. This week they won the Batten Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, for their series revealing an explicit strategy by the […]
Bloomberg’s Cortez moving to Washington
Bloomberg News global health reporter Michelle Fay Cortez is moving to Washington after spending the last three years in Asia. She was an editor on the health and consumer team in Hong Kong before becoming global health reporter two years ago. She will continue covering health stories in Washington. Cortez has been with Bloomberg since 1992, with […]
Fierce Biotech’s Masson now associate editor
Gabrielle Masson has been promoted to an associate editor for Fierce Biotech. She has been a staff writer for Fierce Biotech for the past two years. Prior to Fierce, she worked at Becker’s Hospital Review, where she reported on public health and the pandemic. Masson graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after studying creative writing […]
Zhang named chief DC correspondent for STAT News
Rachel Cohrs Zhang has been promoted to chief Washington correspondent at STAT News. Rachel will still devote most of her time to reporting, and she will also be STAT’s leader in a Washington operation that now includes nearly a dozen full-time editorial, events, and business staff members. Cohrs Zhang, a veteran of Modern Healthcare and Inside […]
