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John Hillkirk, senior enterprise editor, was a reporter or editor at USA Today for 33 years before joining KFF Health News in 2016. John’s reporting team at KFF Health News has won multiple national honors, including a Gerald Loeb Award, a Goldsmith Prize, a Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi award for public service journalism, the Batten Medal from the News Leaders Association, a Murrow Award, two National Press Club awards, and two Pulitzer Prize…
Kathleen Hayden, chief digital editor for KFF Health News, is a 20-year online news veteran with a specialty in government, elections, and policy coverage. Before joining KFF Health News, she managed Bloomberg Government’s online, information graphics, and multimedia teams and edited news and analyses on industries including health care. Prior to BGOV, Kathleen worked at AOL, CNN, and TIME. She graduated from Haverford College.
Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor for health news analysis, joined KFF Health News in 2016 as editor-in-chief after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times. She had covered a variety of beats for the newspaper, from health care to the environment, and did a stint in the Beijing bureau. While in China, she covered SARS, bird flu, and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in rural areas. Her 2013-14 series, “Paying Till It Hurts,”…
David Rousseau is publisher and executive director of KFF Health News, the largest health newsroom in the United States. Since joining KFF in 1999, Rousseau has led several significant initiatives, including the expansion of KFF Health News across multiple regional bureaus and specialized reporting desks, the development of a new program on misinformation, and projects related to health reform, access and spending. Rousseau previously directed all online and digital operations for the organization, and served…
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