| Description: | Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. KHN is an editorially independent news service covering health policy and politics. Our goal is to provide high-quality coverage of developments in Congress, the administration, the states, the marketplace and the health care delivery system. KHN is a major program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues. Funding and strategic guidance for KHN comes from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. KHN also accepts outside funding and has received one grant of $600,000 from the SCAN Foundation. |
| Begun: | 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/ |
| Office Location: | 1330 G St. N.W. Washington, DC |
| Structure: | An operating program of the Kaiser Family Foundation |
| Founder: | Drew Altman and Matt James |
| Executive Director: | Laurie McGinley and Peggy Girshman (executive editors); KHN overseen by Kaiser Family Foundation Senior Vice President Matt James |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 18 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 15 |
| Annual operating budget: | $2.5 million |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | None listed on website |
| Contact: | 202-347-5270 |
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Investigative News Network
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World Investigative Reporting Enterprises
Inside the iLab, we are incubating WIRE, a new, online social utility platform bringing together the best investigative journalists in the world. WIRE will publish original, multimedia work. This highest quality journalism will be organized, made digitally accessible and searchable and disseminated in an entirely new way, via social networks.
iLab Projects
Citizen journalists work undercover in North Korea to show daily life
Japanese journalists have been training citizens in North Korea to take audio and video recordings of everyday life in an effort to document the hardships, including food shortages, prevalent there. Meet the man behind the training, Jiro Ishimaru.
