Category: health reporters

The University of Southern California has announced the staff of its newly formed California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting. That includes the editor-in-chief, the managing editor, and three senior writers.

If you're looking for the names of some of our distinguished colleagues among the new hires, look no further. They're not there. Only one of the five new hires is said to have any background in health reporting, and she seems to be more of an environmental writer than a health reporter.

Michael Parks, the former editor of the Los Angeles Times, who did the hiring, knows science writers. I don't know...