I’m an editor and reporter with almost two decades of experience. I started my career in media covering community sports and local crime at a now-defunct newspaper startup in San Diego County. Now I’m a deputy editor at a Financial Times news site called Endpoints News.
Along the way, I was the health editor at MarketWatch, a financial news site that’s part of The Wall Street Journal network, and a healthcare editor at LinkedIn, where I launched two newsletters and a video series about the future of healthcare.
My 2022 story about ivermectin won the Newswomen’s Club of New York's Front Page Award in 2022, and it received an honorable mention in the SABEW Best in Business Awards the same year, with the judges saying "this story should be studied by other reporters who might be covering how questionable medical treatments somehow gain traction." I’m also a two-time finalist for the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Print Journalism Awards, most recently for my 2018 story revealing that nurses are taking jobs in the gig economy.
Longform storytelling
untold stories That matter
A student in London accidentally discovers an ivermectin study is filled with inaccuracies and flat-out lies. The same study becomes the linchpin for Americans who want to believe that the antimalarial is an effective COVID-19 treatment.
The pandemic demands a better understanding of why Black Americans aren’t represented in clinical trials.
The National School Lunch Program is both crucial and terrible for metabolic health.
An increasing number of nurses are traveling across state lines, to earn the salaries they want and work in environments where they feel supported.
How Los Angeles became the “it” city for tech startups.
A long-time moonshine produced in Mexico’s Jalisco state becomes the trend of the hour among New York’s cocktail aficionado crowd.
2. Entrepreneurial Journalism
Testing new ways to boost engagement and build community
The Checkup on LinkedIn: A newsletter and video series about what’s next for a health care industry in transformation
I launched #TheCheckup in mid-2018 with the aim of taking a social approach to news gathering, in part by incorporating publicly shared views of health care workers on the industry’s biggest issues while retaining a journalistic vision and standard. The video series featured interviews with Times Up Health Care co-founder Dr. Jane van Dis, and medical futurist Dr. Eric Topol. The weekly newsletter, which had about 30,000 subscribers, delved into topics as wide-ranging as nursing strikes to Netflix-style pricing models for hepatitis-C drugs.
The Young Jurists Program at MM+M
I created a program that encouraged early-career advertising workers to apply for inclusion in the juries for the magazine’s annual awards program. Each of the five jurists was paired with a senior executive in the advertising industry during the awards-day judging and gifted a ticket to the black-tie dinner. The aim? Opening the door for mentorship relationships and building brand loyalty for the magazine with a younger audience.