Tony Leys

Tony Leys, rural editor/correspondent, is based in Iowa City, Iowa. He previously worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for the Des Moines Register, including more than 20 years as the newspaper’s lead health care writer. He served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists, and he is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.