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Thursday,
February 14, 2019
Missouri Foundation for Health and KFF Announce New Long-term
Partnership, Establish Kaiser Health News Midwest Bureau in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Mo. & SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --
Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) and KFF (the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation) have entered into a new long-term partnership to establish a KHN
(Kaiser Health News) Midwest Bureau, based in St. Louis, Missouri. KFF
– the trusted source of health policy information – produces health policy
analysis, polling, and journalism, and KHN is its national health and health
policy newsroom, producing in-depth news coverage of health care policy and
politics. An editorially independent program of KFF, KHN’s more than 50
journalists are mostly based in KFF’s Washington, D.C. offices or in
California.
With support from MFH, KHN will expand its
editorial staff and build a team of journalists based in St. Louis who,
working with freelancers, will produce coverage throughout the region. The
goal is to bring the same high-quality health and health policy journalism
that KHN produces nationally to the region and to bring important stories
from the Midwest Bureau to the nation. As with all its journalism, KHN
stories produced from the Midwest Bureau will be made freely available for
publication by media outlets throughout the region and the country and will
be published on khn.org and distributed through KHN’s social media
platforms.
“This partnership continues and expands Missouri
Foundation for Health’s commitment to health journalism,” said Robert Hughes,
president and CEO of Missouri Foundation for Health. “This exciting new
venture will provide the local health journalism Missourians need to
understand and navigate the changing landscape of health, the health
industry, and health politics. I’m looking forward to seeing more stories
reported out of the Midwest Bureau receive the national attention they
deserve.”
“We are thrilled that Missouri Foundation for
Health is making it possible for us to bring KHN to the Midwest and to
create a new engine for health journalism based in St. Louis,” said KFF
president and CEO Drew Altman, who is also KHN’s founding publisher. “Next we
hope to expand in other important regions such as the South and the Mountain
states,” Altman added.
“The ongoing crisis in local journalism’s business
model has left many communities with few or no trusted sources of news about
a wide range of issues, including health,” said KFF vice president and
executive director of Media and Technology, David Rousseau, KHN’s
Publisher. “We are excited to be working with Missouri Foundation for
Health to extend the KHN model of nonprofit journalism to the Midwest and are
confident that both the region and the nation will benefit from this increased
coverage.”
Media organizations interested in working with KHN
should contact KHN at KHNPartnerships@kff.org and those interested in joining
our efforts to expand and improve health journalism in the Midwest and beyond
should contact KFF at healthjournalism@kff.org. Employment
opportunities for the Midwest Bureau will be posted soon at https://www.kff.org/employment-opportunities/.
For more on the partners, visit Missouri
Foundation for Health at www.mffh.org, Kaiser Family Foundation
at www.kff.org, and Kaiser Health News at www.khn.org.
ABOUT
MISSOURI FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH
Missouri Foundation for Health is a resource for
the region, working with communities and nonprofits to generate and
accelerate positive changes in health. As a catalyst for change, the
Foundation improves the health of Missourians through partnership,
experience, knowledge, and funding. To learn more please visit mffh.org.
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues,
the Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in San
Francisco, California.
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Thursday, February 14, 2019
Missouri Foundation for Health and KFF Announce New Long-term Partnership
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