Who covers health care the way it ought to be done?
We are making progress. Things are getting better. There are people day in and day out who do a really good job. Predictably, those are the people who sucked it up and sought training or trained themselves. Evidence-based reporters: they always start by scrutinizing results. Carla Johnson at the Associate Press in Chicago: She has gone to evidence-based journalism workshops around the country and she hasn’t even been on this beat that long, less than 10 years. A real role model. I will never forget with the Wall Street Journal next door to the Twin Towers—there was no media company as physically affected by the attack that day and they had to move their offices. Even in those days, the Wall Street Journal still beefed up its health care coverage. One guy I think very highly of is Scott Hensley, co-editor of the Wall Street Journal Health Blog with Jacob Goldstein. He’s very new-media savvy and very smart in covering these issues. And you can’t take the New York Times for granted, there
