Tong departs Fierce Healthcare for new opportunity
Fierce Healthcare reporter Noah Tong has left the news organization for another opportunity covering health care. He has been covering health payers. He previously was a reporter for the Corridor Business Journal in Iowa for 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 […]
Knight departing Axios, seeking new role
Axios health care policy reporter Victoria Knight is leaving the news organization next week and is looking for a new role. She has been with Axios since August 2022. Knight previously covered Congress and a wide range of health care issues from Washington for Kaiser Health. She was its lead reporter working with PolitiFact to check the […]
Smith-Barrow named deputy health editor at Politico
Delece Smith-Barrow has been named deputy health editor at Politico, leading a team of journalists focused on health research, health tech and soon the surgeon general. She has been education editor, leading a team of journalists writing about national education policy trends and legislation, curriculum battles, student loan servicers, teacher unions and related topics. Prior to joining […]
STAT News seeks 45% hike in subscribers this summer
Rick Berke, co-founder and executive editor of STAT News, writes about the health care news site’s progress. Berke writes: Readers are flocking to STAT in record numbers. They tell us they are drawn to our deep, authoritative reporting of the upheaval we’re seeing in health and medicine and the reverberations for each and every one […]
KFF seeks a Washington health policy reporter
KFF is seeking a Washington Health Policy Reporter to cover health policymaking in Washington. The ideal candidate knows Congress, the regulatory system, K Street, and health policy and can write big stories with clarity, perspective, and authority about how Washington shapes health care for millions of Americans. The journalist we’re looking for is energized and inquisitive. […]
Boston Globe hires Wolf to cover health care biz
The Boston Globe has hired Marin Wolf to cover the business of health care. Before her move to Boston, she was a health care reporter at The Dallas Morning News, where she wrote about public health, biotechnology and Texas hospitals. She led the paper’s COVID-19 and reproductive care coverage. Her work has also appeared in Bloomberg News […]
WSJ seeks a health care reporter
The Wall Street Journal seeks an enterprising and ambitious reporter to cover the U.S. health care system and the businesses that run it, from the pharmaceutical makers and biotech, to medical devices, hospitals and pharmacy benefit managers. This is a critical time to be reporting on these powerful companies and nonprofits, which account for the […]
Finding stories in insurance companies
Taylor Blatchford writes about finding stories at insurance companies based on a panel at the recent Association of Health Care Journalists conference. Blatchford writes, “Health insurance plans are regulated by state insurance departments, and insurance companies have to make routine filings that are public. These filings require insurers to put in writing why they have to […]
Weitzman departs Axios for Octus
Aaron Weitzman has left Axios Pro for a senior reporting job at Octus, formerly known as Reorg. He will still be focused on healthcare M&A, private equity as well as expending coverage to private credit. He comes from Axios Pro, where he helped co-author the health tech deals daily newsletter, as well writing hundreds of […]
UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation
UnitedHealthcare is suing The Guardian for defamation over a story related to its billing for nursing home residents, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, UnitedHealthcare said that The Guardian had knowingly published false information, and tried to capitalize on media interest in the killing of its then-CEO last year in New […]
