Dow Jones Newswires names new health insurance reporter

George Stahl, deputy managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Wednesday:

I am pleased to announce that Jon Kamp will become the Wires’ new health insurance reporter, following a successful multiyear run as medical device reporter.

Jon will remain in Boston but will begin covering the companies that provide and pay for health-care services, an area undergoing a dramatic transformation because of the overhaul bill passed in 2010.

For the past five years, Jon has provided blanket coverage of the medical device industry. Over that span, Jon aggressively tracked the merger fight and difficult integration of Boston Scientific and Guidant, detailed the controversy over the safety and efficacy of heart stents, and was named a finalist for a 2008 Loeb Award in the beat-writing category.

Jon’s dedication and hard-working nature made him an easy choice to take on the challenges of covering the increasingly scrutinized health insurance industry. He will continue to report to me.

Jon started with Dow Jones in 2000 in Chicago as an energy reporter, covering that beat until January 2006. In Chicago, Jon worked his way up to deputy bureau chief before moving to Boston in 2008.

He graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1996 with a degree in English and has a masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Please join me in wishing Jon all the best in his new post.