NY Times hires STAT senior news editor Thielking
Lori Leibovich, the editor of Well at The New York Times, sent out the following on Thursday: For months, we’ve been searching for a gifted editor to lead Well’s daily news coverage and work with our reporters to further shape our news strategy. We’ve found that person in Megan Thielking. Megan is joining us from […]
CNBC hires Bloomberg’s Peebles to cover health and pharma
CNBC senior vice president Dan Colarusso sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: I’m excited to announce Angelica Peebles will join CNBC as our Health and Pharmaceutical Reporter based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Some of you may remember Angelica – back when her last name was LaVito – as she covered consumer health for CNBC.com […]
Modern Healthcare seeks a deputy editor
Modern Healthcare, the leading source of health care business news, is looking for a highly motivated, news-driven deputy editor to grow our audience by helping produce must-read content for our website and newsletters. The deputy editor is a member of the newsroom’s leadership team and will work with other editors to shape the direction of […]
Politico taps Leonard to cover health care politics and policy
Politico has named Ben Leonard to cover health care politics and policy, starting Aug. 7. Leonard has been a health technology reporter, covering digital health action from D.C. at agencies, in Congress and in the White House, as well as the industry at large. He previously covered breaking news for Politico as an intern and has reported […]
Endpoints hires Pflanzer to cover health tech
Health care industry news site Endpoints has hired Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer to cover health technology. Pflanzer will start in August. She had been senior editor at Business Insider, where she worked for more than eight years. She became a health care editor in 2020 and reported and wrote Dispensed, the weekly health care newsletter. Ramsey joined Business Insider in […]
Endpoints hires De Groot to cover FDA
Endpoints has hired Lia DeGroot to cover the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “I’m thrilled to be joining the team and getting to cover this critical beat that has never failed to keep me on my toes,” she wrote on Twitter. She has been at Inside Health Policy covering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. DeGroot […]
Fierce Healthcare hires Tong to cover health payers
Fierce Healthcare has hired Noah Tong to cover health payers. He has been a reporter for the Corridor Business Journal in Iowa for the past two years covering local government, mergers and acquisitions and the University of Iowa. Tong was an intern for Cincy Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Manchester University, where he was […]
Senior editor Pflanzer departing Business Insider
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, a senior editor at Business Insider, is leaving the website after more than eight years. She became a health care editor in 2020 and reported and wrote Dispensed, the weekly health care newsletter. Ramsey joined Business Insider in 2015 as an editorial intern. She was then promoted to the post of pharma/biotech reporter. Later […]
Gonzalez departing Axios for Albritton Journalism Institute
Axios health care reporter Oriana Gonzalez is leaving the news organization for the Albritton Journalism Institute. She will report for its nonprofit news site. Gonzalez has also been a breaking news reporter at Axios. She has been at Axios since October 2020 covering a variety of topics. She was a frequent contributor to the “Axios Today” podcast and has appeared […]
FDA reporter DeGroot leaving Inside Health Policy
Inside Health Policy reporter Lia DeGroot is leaving the publication for a new opportunity. She has been covering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. DeGroot is a 2022 graduate of George Washington University, where she was editor in chief of The Hatchet, the student publication.
