The first webinar in a four-part series, “Follow the Money,” is being presented by AHCJ and Investigative Reporters and Editors. The series aims to provide journalists with the tools they need to report on the big business of health care. Karl Stark, Director of Content Strategy & Editor in Residence at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will lead the webinar and show participants how to use AHCJ’s hospitalfinances.org site and other resources to tell stories about hospitals’ financial health. The series is free for all journalists thanks to the generous support of the NIHCM Foundation.
Karl Stark has extensive experience in journalism, having worked for more than three decades at the Philadelphia Inquirer where he served as Health Editor, Business News Editor and National/Foreign Editor, among other positions. His reporting on the bankrupt Allegheny health system helped lead to indictments of the top three executives. He is also a past President of the Association of Health Care Journalists, a leading group of health reporters and editors in the US. In addition to his work with AHCJ, he is also a co-author of “Covering Quality Health Care – A Resource Guide for Journalists” and leads a session on covering hospital finances at AHCJ’s annual meeting. Karl Stark is a graduate from Yale University where he played varsity tennis and has distant memories of skating competitively with his sister Julie.
