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Colorado Health Foundation, The
Colorado Trust, and KFF Team Up to Bring More Health Journalism to
Colorado
KHN to Add Staff and Freelancers in Colorado
DENVER, Colo. & SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March
5, 2019 — The Colorado Health Foundation, The Colorado Trust, and KFF (the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) are partnering to bring Kaiser Health News
(KHN) to Colorado. KFF—the trusted source of health policy information—produces
health policy analysis, polling, and journalism, and KHN is its editorially
independent national health and health policy newsroom, producing in-depth
news coverage of health care policy and politics.
Thanks to a new long-term partnership with the Colorado
Health Foundation and The Colorado Trust, KFF will hire a Colorado-based KHN
reporter and recruit a team of freelance journalists throughout the state to
bring the same high-quality health journalism to Colorado and the surrounding
region that KHN produces nationally. This partnership will also share
important stories from Colorado and the region with the nation. KHN
stories produced from the region will be made freely available for
publication by media outlets throughout Colorado, the mountain states, and
the country, and will be published on khn.org and distributed through KHN’s social media
platforms.
“Elevating the voices and exploring the
experiences of Coloradans and the communities they call home are key to
achieving more health equity in our state,” said Karen McNeil-Miller,
president and CEO of the Colorado Health Foundation. “News stories illustrate
and bring to life what data alone cannot. They shine a light on the often
invisible barriers that inequity creates in the lives of far too many
Coloradans. Trusted and reliable news sources are critical to creating an
informed and engaged public and surfacing solutions that will bring health in
reach for all of us.”
“This is an important step towards addressing a
long-time need for more stories on health equity, health policy, and health
care issues in our state,” said Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, president and CEO of
The Colorado Trust. “Allowing Coloradans to understand how their health is
impacted by policies, systems, and social circumstances is essential to
ending inequalities, as well as improving individual and community well-being.
We are especially pleased that these stories will be available for free to
any Colorado media outlet.”
“With this support from two of Colorado’s leading
health philanthropies, we hope to help fill the need for in-depth coverage of
health in Colorado and the mountain states and bring those stories to the
nation at the same time,” said Drew Altman, KFF’s CEO and KHN’s founding
publisher.
KHN’s more than 50 journalists are mostly based in
KFF’s Washington, D.C. offices or in California, and this expansion to Colorado
follows on the recently announced creation of a KHN Midwest Bureau in
St. Louis, Missouri.
“Throughout KHN’s history, we have been fortunate
to receive support from a fantastic group of national and regional health
foundations who understand the importance of editorially independent,
nonprofit health journalism,” said David Rousseau, KFF vice president and
executive director of Media and Technology, and KHN’s publisher. “Their
support has made it possible for us to extend KHN’s reach to new communities
and new topics, and we are thrilled to work with the Colorado Health
Foundation and The Colorado Trust to increase health reporting for and about
Colorado.”
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 Colorado, the
mountain states, and beyond should contact KFF at healthjournalism@kff.org. Colorado
employment opportunities will be posted soon at www.kff.org/employment-opportunities.
For more on the partners, visit the Colorado
Health Foundation at www.coloradohealth.org, The Colorado Trust at www.coloradotrust.org, KFF at www.kff.org, and KHN at www.khn.org.
ABOUT THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION
The Colorado Health Foundation is bringing health
in reach for all Coloradans by engaging closely with communities across the
state through investing, policy advocacy, learning and capacity building. For
more information, please visit www.coloradohealth.org.
ABOUT THE COLORADO TRUST
The Colorado Trust is a foundation dedicated to
achieving health equity—ending inequalities that affect racial, ethnic,
low-income and other vulnerable populations, so that everyone can achieve
good health. The Trust believes all Coloradans should have fair and equal
opportunities to lead healthy, productive lives regardless of race,
ethnicity, income or where we live. The Trust focuses on policies and
information related to advancing health equity, as well as projects that
address health equity in partnership with communities throughout Colorado. For
more information, please visit www.coloradotrust.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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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Colorado Health Foundation, The Colorado Trust, and KFF Team Up to Bring More Health Journalism to Colorado
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