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SABEW announces 2019 health care fellows

Fifteen journalists have been selected as fellows for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s seventh annual Health Care Symposium, made possible by a grant from The Commonwealth Fund.

The group will gather in Washington, D.C., June 27-29 at the National Press Club and at the Bloomberg Washington bureau. The symposium will help the fellows better understand health care economics and will provide an update on the Affordable Care Act. Fellows will be able to share and test out story ideas.

The 2019 health care fellows are:

Felicia Alvarez, reporter, Sacramento Business Journal
Allan Brettman, business editor, The Columbian
Lauren Coleman-Lochner, reporter, Bloomberg
Tatiana Darie, health care reporter, Bloomberg
Sara Gilgore, staff reporter, Washington Business Journal
Alexandra Glorioso, Florida health care and business reporter, Politico
David Hood, reporter, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Kris Mamula, reporter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hannah Norman, reporter, San Francisco Business Times
Michael O’Connor, assistant editor, VA Business
David Reich-Hale, business health care reporter, Newsday
JC Reindl, reporter, Detroit Free Press
Chelsea Shannon, brain room research specialist, ABC10-KXTV Sacramento
Shira Stein, health care oversight reporter, Bloomberg Law
Ricky Zipp, health care reporter, S&P Global Market Intelligence

“Journalists need support to cover an unclear and rapidly changing health care landscape,” said Kathleen Graham, executive director of SABEW, in a statement. “The symposium will help reporters better understand the future of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, single-payer health care models and prescription drug pricing.”

Speakers include Sara Collins, vice president for the Health Care Coverage and Access program at The Commonwealth Fund; Katie Keith, part-time researcher at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms and principal at Keith Policy Solutions at Georgetown University; Sydney Lupkin, data correspondent at Kaiser Health News; John Kagia, industry analytics at New Frontier Data; and Leigh Purvis, director of health services research at AARP’s Public Policy Institute.

Additional speakers will be added to the agenda.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.