This week I’m celebrating five years as a Midwest Correspondent for KFF Health News! 🥳 Super grateful to mark this anniversary with my fourth consecutive nomination for a #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 Salute to Excellence Award. Another career milestone includes speaking to film students at Yale University!

On this day in 1961, my dad, Newton Minow, age 35, Chairman of the @fcc, told the National Association of Broadcasters to live up to the pledge to serve the public interest they made to get their licenses to broadcast over the public airways. americanrhetoric.com/speeches/newto… 1/2

This work would not have happened without the vision, skill, steadiness, and leadership of John Hillkirk and Kelly Johnson, investigative editors extraordinaire.

Congratulations on this richly deserved honor - this reporting felt like an earthquake

We're thrilled to be a 2024 finalist for the #Pulitzer Prize in Public Service, for our joint investigation with Cox Media Group on Social Security overpayments: pulitzer.org/finalists/kff-…

Congrats to David Hilzenrath, Jodie Fleischer and everyone involved.

“I still have not received an apology from the judiciary about what happened to me. I no longer expect one. I'm not holding my breath.'

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NEW @pogowatchdog investigation by me:

Previously unreported #whistleblower retaliation claims highlight human rights and environmental risks and tensions in an agency at the forefront of U.S.-China rivalry in Africa.

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A TikTok user claims to have developed an allergy from DIY gel nails. What gives? An allergist weighed in. Let’s walk through what happened in this viral video.

Tarena Lofton (she/her) reports ⤵️ californiahealthline.org/news/article/d…

Why my annoyance at instruction manuals is more than an old man yelling at cloud — it’s a public health problem: npr.org/sections/healt…

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: Alice Miranda Ollstein, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Rachana D. Pradhan and I talk about how Florida's abortion ban impacts the entire south, what Trump might do, and the CEO of UnitedHealth Group gets roasted at Congressional hearings.
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NPR investigation finds federal judges failing to disclose free luxury travel - important work ⁦Tom Dreisbach⁩

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For the Broadcast or Cable Television Stations Public Service category, David Hilzenrath of KFF Health News and Jodie Fleischer of Cox Media Group won first place for their coverage of social security overpayments.

Here's more on the award-winning series: kffhealthnews.org/overpayment-ou…

(1/5) We're thrilled to have been recognized four times in Association of Health Care Journalists's 2023 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism! 🥳

Here's a closer look at the award-winning work. ⬇️ healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/04/m…

My story made the TODAY!

Women treated by female doctors more likely to survive: study today.com/video/could-th… via TODAY

Novo is discontinuing an insulin after cutting its price, highlighting a key gap in policy efforts: Even if officials get pharma to lower prices, companies can choose to just pull the drug, without guaranteeing someone else continues to make the compound
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So incredibly honored to be on this list with people whose reporting has deeply informed, inspired, and impressed me!

Have you heard? #BadWatchdog won big last night! Check out the ceremony (and Maren' excellent acceptance speech, which starts at 2:21:11 into the stream) on New York Festivals website: newyorkfestivals.com/Storytellers-g…

Two heart devices linked to a handful of deaths and hundreds of injuries were recalled Monday. Some patient safety advocates ask: What took the U.S. FDA and Abbott so long to act?
kffhealthnews.org/MTgzOTkyNw via @kffhealthnews w/ Holly Hacker

Related to our ongoing investigation - FDA Announces Recall of Heart Pumps Linked to Deaths and Injuries kffhealthnews.org/MTgzOTkyNw via @kffhealthnews