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Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.

KHN’s mission is to provide high-quality coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels. In addition, KHN covers trends in the delivery of health care and in the marketplace.

Among our goals: provide new opportunities for health care journalists to produce in-depth work and a new vehicle to distribute it through collaborations with major news organizations and on this Web site. This Web site also features daily summaries of major health care news from across the nation, as well as original videos and a broad range of commentary from contributing writers and issues.

KHN is a major program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues.

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KHN's coverage of aging and long term care issues is supported by a grant from The SCAN Foundation, based in Long Beach, Calif. The SCAN Foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors that integrates medical treatment and human services with the greatest likelihood of a healthy, independent life.

KHN accepts no advertising and all original content is available to partner news organizations and the public free of charge. Neither KHN nor the Kaiser Family Foundation is affiliated with the health insurance company Kaiser Permanente. Learn more about our Editorial Policy.

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EDITORS

Laurie McGinley, executive editor for news, spent 27 years at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as the deputy bureau chief for global economics. She was a national health care policy correspondent and was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for AIDS coverage.

Peggy Girshman, executive editor for online, is a former managing editor of National Public Radio, an Executive Editor at Congressional Quarterly and also worked as a producer for Dateline NBC and several PBS series. She has won two Peabody Awards for health policy coverage.

John Fairhall, senior editor, was a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Sun for 27 years. As an assistant managing editor, he oversaw health and science coverage as well as projects.

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NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

KHN has a distinguished National Advisory Committee who include:

• Chairman: Leonard Downie, Jr., vice president at large, The Washington Post, and former executive editor of the Post;
  
  
• Karen Dunlap, president and trustee of the Poynter Institute;
  
  
• Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation;
  
  
• Kevin Klose, dean of the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and former president of National Public Radio, Inc.;
  
  
• Bill Kovach, founding chairman of Committee of Concerned Journalists, former executive editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution;
  
  
• Charles Lewis, distinguished journalist in residence at American University, a former producer for CBS's "60 Minutes" and founder of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative news site;
  
  
• Diana Mason, Rudin professor of nursing at Hunter College-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, and director of Center for Health Media and Policy;
  
  
• Arlene Morgan, associate dean, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism;
  
  
• Tom Rosenstiel, director, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism;
  
  
• Cathy Trost, director of exhibit development, Newseum, founding director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families.

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