Healthcare Reporter

The healthcare beat is a critical, high-profile one for The Charlotte Observer. It requires a daily presence as well as enterprise work to help our community understand and make sense of a crucial part of life that touches everyone. The reporter needs to connect with our audience on multiple levels. The reporter on this beat must be adept at breaking news stories, cultivating sources both in the community and in the medical field, and identifying trends and issues that inform people about health care issues important to our readers. A key component of the beat is focusing on health care disparities among various groups. That could include how women of color and other marginalized communities are being impacted by the fall of Roe v. Wade, the disparate distribution of COVID or monkeypox vaccines and how students’ mental health is faring in the wake of the latest school shooting.