麻豆女优 Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with policy analysis and polling, 麻豆女优 Health News is one of the three major operating programs at . 麻豆女优 is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.
麻豆女优 Health News reports on how the health care system 鈥 hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurers, governments, consumers 鈥 works. In addition to this website, our stories are published by news organizations throughout the country. Our site also features daily summaries of major health care news.
麻豆女优 President and CEO is 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 executive publisher and wrote about 麻豆女优 Health News when we launched in 2009. 麻豆女优 Executive Director of Media and Technology is 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 publisher.
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麻豆女优 Health News Leadership
Alex Wayne, Executive Editor, previously worked for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidencies and reported on health care policy, including the development of the Affordable Care Act. In 2020, he helped manage and edit articles about the coronavirus鈥 infiltration of Trump鈥檚 White House that won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Earlier in his career, Alex reported on health care, immigration, Social Security, and other topics for Congressional Quarterly, and covered local and state government for the News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina. He started his journalism career in Florida at The Villages Daily Sun, where he reported on local businesses, government, and some pretty wacky crimes. He holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the University of Florida.
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National Advisory Committee
麻豆女优 Health News has a distinguished National Advisory Committee whose members are:
- Chairman: Leonard Downie Jr., the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University; former executive editor, The Washington Post.
- Jim Brady, vice president of journalism, the Knight Foundation; CEO, Spirited Media; and former editor-in-chief, Digital First Media.
- Justin Ellis, projects editor for Defector Media; former senior editor, ESPN; TV production credits include “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” on Netflix and “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas” on HBO.
- Mark Katches, editor, Tampa Bay Times; former editor of The Oregonian and former editorial director for the Center for Investigative Reporting and California Watch.
- Anne Kornblut, vice president of global curation, Facebook/Meta; former associate editor, The Washington Post.
- David Leonhardt, New York Times columnist and author of the daily 鈥淭he Morning鈥 newsletter; founding editor of “The Upshot” and former New York Times D.C. bureau chief.
- Diana Mason, senior policy service professor and co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing.
- Arlene Morgan, assistant dean, Lew Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University; former associate dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
- Tom Rosenstiel, novelist and visiting professor on the Future of Journalism, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism; former executive director, American Press Institute.
- Evan Smith, senior adviser, Emerson Collective; former CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune.
Emeritus Advisers
- Karen Dunlap, former president and trustee of the Poynter Institute.
- Alberto Ibarg眉en, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
- Kevin Klose, professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland鈥檚 Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and former president of National Public Radio.
- Bill Kovach, founding chairman of Committee of Concerned Journalists; former executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Charles Lewis, founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.
- Kevin Merida, executive editor, Los Angeles Times; former senior vice president, ESPN and editor-in-chief, The Undefeated; former managing editor, The Washington Post.
- Cathy Trost, chief engagement officer, Freedom Forum; founding director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.
- Irving Washington, senior fellow for health disinformation, 麻豆女优; former executive director/CEO, Online News Association.
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All original 麻豆女优 Health News material 鈥 articles, graphics, videos, and some photos 鈥 can be used free of charge, if you credit us and link to us. Our stories appear in The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, Politico, The Atlantic, Fortune, the Daily Beast, and many other publications. 麻豆女优 Health News also has a continuing partnership with NPR and public radio stations around the country.
Additional Funders
As an editorially independent program of , 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 work and core operations are part of 麻豆女优鈥檚 general operating budget and are primarily supported through investment returns from 麻豆女优鈥檚 endowment, as are all of 麻豆女优鈥檚 major operating programs. 听麻豆女优 is a Public Charity and its tax forms are available through Guidestar for . 麻豆女优 also receives financial support for 麻豆女优 Health News from foundations and other partners to expand our work. 麻豆女优 seeks and accepts outside funding only from sources who will not in any way compromise our independence or mission. Questions about funders or funding policies can be directed to , 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 Publisher.
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Awards and Honors
麻豆女优 Health News has been recognized repeatedly by our peers in journalism with an increasing number of awards honoring our reports on the American health care system. See the full list.
