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April
2, 2020
KFF’s Kaiser Health News (KHN) to Expand Coverage in the Mountain
West
Expansion
Results from New Partnership with the Montana Healthcare Foundation and the
Headwaters Foundation
KFF’s
Kaiser Health News (KHN) will hire a full-time Montana-based correspondent and
recruit a team of freelance reporters to expand its coverage of health care
policy and politics in the region, including the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
The
expansion is made possible by a new long-term partnership among KFF, the
Montana Healthcare Foundation, and the Headwaters Foundation, and follows the
opening last year of KHN’s Mountain States Bureau in Denver and its Midwest Bureau in St. Louis.
Media
outlets from Montana and elsewhere can publish KHN stories from the region at
no charge. KHN also will publish the stories on khn.org and promote them through its social media
platforms. KHN is an award-winning nonprofit news service that is an
editorially independent program of KFF, formally The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization engaged
in policy analysis, polling, journalism, and communications to produce
trusted information on national health issues.
“At
a time when many local news organizations are scrambling to cover the
coronavirus crisis, KHN’s model of partnering with local outlets and
producing high quality health journalism should quickly translate into better
informed communities," said Drew Altman, KFF’s CEO and KHN’s founding
publisher. “Thanks to the support of the Montana Healthcare Foundation
and the Headwaters Foundation, we will be bringing the Mountain West more
in-depth coverage not only of COVID-19, but also issues such as the Medicaid
expansion, health care costs, rural health care and health care in the 2020
elections.”
“Montana
Healthcare Foundation is committed to ensuring that Montanans have solid
information on key health care and health policy issues in our state,” said
Aaron Wernham, MHCF CEO. “We’re excited to partner with the nation’s
preeminent health journalism outlet to give all Montanans access to
high-quality coverage of health issues that affect us.”
"The
people of Montana deserve the caliber of journalism that Kaiser Health News
can provide so they can make informed decisions about their lives," said
Headwaters Foundation CEO Brenda Solorzano. "Headwaters Foundation is
excited to partner in supporting this effort dedicated to high-quality
journalism covering health issues that affect Montanans."
KHN employs more than 60 journalists, with most based
in the KHN newsroom in KFF’s Washington D.C. offices and others working in
California, Colorado, and Missouri. The 11-year-old news service has won
numerous awards, including a prestigious Barlett & Steele Award for
Investigative Journalism and five “Best in Business” awards from the Society
for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). KHN also is a finalist
for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by the
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard
University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Journalists
interested in the Montana correspondent’s job can find details about the
position and information about how to apply on kff.org.
News
organizations interested in working with KHN should contact the news service
at KHNPartnerships@kff.org, and those interested in
helping to expand and improve health journalism around the country should
contact KFF at healthjournalism@kff.org.
For
more on our partners in Montana, visit the Montana Healthcare Foundation and the Headwaters Foundation online.
About The
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News:
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, KFF (The Henry J.
Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco,
California. KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF and is the
nation’s leading and largest health and health policy newsroom, producing
stories that run on khn.org and are published by hundreds of news
organizations across the country.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
KFF’s Kaiser Health News (KHN) to Expand Coverage in the Mountain West
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