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  • Julie Appleby

    Person

    Julie Appleby, senior correspondent, has reported on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health care treatments and costs, trends in health insurance, and policies affecting hospitals and other medical providers. Before joining KFF Health News, Julie spent 10 years covering the health industry and health care policy at USA Today. She also worked at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, California. She helped launch the Association of Health…

  • Kaiser Family Foundation Launches New Non-Profit Health Policy News Service

    News Release

    Kaiser Health News Will Provide In-Depth Reporting on Major Health Policy Issues Menlo Park, CA -- In the midst of a major federal health reform debate and the ongoing financial turmoil in the media industry, the Kaiser Family Foundation officially launched Kaiser Health News (KHN) today to provide a new source of in-depth reporting on major health issues. KHN is staffed by experienced health policy journalists and editors, and will feature contributions from a wide…

  • Pulling it Together: About Kaiser Health News

    Perspective

    There is lots of apocalyptic talk these days about the collapse of the newspaper industry and the challenges facing news organizations.  There is even talk of the unimaginable, my hometown paper The Boston Globe shutting down. Surely they know that Red Sox Nation cannot exist without the Globe Sports pages. All kinds of solutions have been proposed, from micro-payments for news stories like songs on iTunes to foundation-endowed daily newspapers.  There is growing talk of…

  • The Kaiser Media Mini-Fellowships in Health for 1997-2001

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    Prior to 2003, travel and research grants were awarded to print and broadcast journalists and editors to report on health policy and public health issues for publication/broadcast. For details of the mini-fellowship awards for 1997-2001, see below. Click here to see Mini-Fellows' Work Fourteen journalists were awarded Kaiser Media Mini-Fellowships in 2001/2002, to research and report on the following issues: Constance Alexander, freelance writer and independent producer, WKMS-FM: End-of-life issues in rural western Kentucky.Jenni Bergal,…