I spent months examining the barriers that trans men face when seeking gynecologic care.
Blatant discrimination, layers of laws and disparate provider guidelines leave LGBTQ+ patients without trust โ or treatment. The consequences can be deadly:
*UPDATE* Asked both a pharmacist and another employee inside whether it belongs to the store. Neither seemed aware or certain. The poster is, indeed, on the outside. Was referred to corporate office
PR folks:
-Pls keep in mind that when we set up an interview, it is with NO GUARANTEES of coverage
-Pls communicate that to clients
-Pls don't lash out if comments don't make it into the final copy. MANY things get cut in the writing process; it's not personal
Some news...I'm now a senior writer at
@FierceHealth
๐
Stoked to focus more on investigative + longform stories. Special thanks to my editors who advocated for me<3
Covering healthcare is a privilege and a passion. I remain hopeful about a fairer future system. Send me tips!
Was lucky enough to see Prima Facie, a masterpiece, last night โ Jodie Comer was extraordinary, as was the writing, production & message
Run, donโt walk, to catch this before itโs over
PR folks: Friendly reminder that business reporters don't have time for intro convos with your clients, nor are they useful. Unless it's for a tip, I only talk to sources for stories I'm working on
PR PSA: I don't have time for intro calls or meet-ups with executives when they're in town.
I don't need to talk to random "experts" on a random topic that's trending each week.
I am working on what I am working on and will seek sources as needs arise! TY!
Just like that,
@columbiajourn
has come to a bittersweet end. Itโs a weird but important time to be graduating. To quote the brilliant
@emilybell
, who led my course on disinformation, โWhen life gives you lemons ask 'Where did you get those lemons from? Are they real?โโ๐
Hello! Some news: Next month, I'll be joining
@FierceHealth
as a staff writer! I'm grateful to finally be covering this beat full-time, especially from the perspective of business and policy. DMs always open, tips & ideas welcome ๐
Psst โ todayโs my first day at
@FierceHealth
. Iโm super excited to get straight to reporting. Letโs chat! agliadkovskaya [at] questex [dot] com โ๏ธ
Thereโs an affordable way to do the first year of an MPH! Part-time!
Still going to be reporting, but canโt wait to dive deeper into public health leadership, equity & communication this fall๐ค
PR folks: Reminder to please not text, call or DM me about news!
Unless you're a source, I am only responsive to work things on my work email๐If a phone convo is needed, we can work that out over email
In the spirit of other tweets on pitching etiquetteโ๏ธ
- NO pitches via text, DM, call
- 2x follow-ups MAX (if we know each other). ONCE if we don't
- No names of random experts
- Don't assume I'm covering [breaking news]
- Interviews don't guarantee coverage
- No Qs in advance
PR folks, please mind the difference between healthcare, biotech & pharma. Fierce has 3 separate teams for each.
Pls do not pitch me life sciences news or experts. That is not remotely what I cover!
Pls don't ask for intros; all our emails are on our respective sites
Two months ago, I began reporting on New York's new opioid excise tax, which was intended to punish pharma companies for the opioid crisis. But since going into effect, the tax has largely backfired. So proud of this piece, out today in
@FortuneMagazine
:
Periodic reminder that our award-winning podcast, Podnosis, is always open to guest pitches๐๏ธ
Whether you're an industry person dying to talk about something no one else is or have a hot take on something already mainstream, get in touch!
BREAKING: NYโs year-old opioid tax on suppliers has backfired, leaving patients and pharmacies increasingly without access to the prescription drugs. Experts predicted this would happen. Out today on
@FortuneMagazine
&
@KHNews
Buckling up for a challenging few months digging through ๐ท๐บ disinformation silos on Facebook and VK. The goal: understand why Russian-Americans are drawn to the far-right & identify social media messaging that threatens the integrity of the
#Election2020
.
A warm welcome to Anastassia Gliadkovskaya (
@gliadkovskaya
), 2020 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellow from
@columbiajourn
! Anastassia documents how social media will influence Russian-American voters in New York City. Welcome, Anastassia!
Yesterday, we at
@THECITYNY
published a story with new data on NYC hospitals slammed the worst by COVID, how they coped and what the future looks like now. Here's the story, and a thread on some of what we found below: 1/
Stopped by the
@FierceHealth
office to see it with my own eyes ๐ค
Our podcast Podnosis has been a labor of love and Iโm so proud to see it recognized
Hellooo! Mentally, Iโll be here for the foreseeable futureโฆ
Cheers to last weekโs sunshine and vast expanse aka the Cliffs of Moher on a clear day ๐ฅน
NEW: I recently got curious โ what does it take to name a healthcare startup? So I decided to find out.
Thanks to everyone who shared their unbelievable, at times hilarious, anecdotes. This was so fun to write:
Getting a lot of requests already, so let it be known: I will not be attending HLTH this year!
Some of our
@FierceHealth
team *will* be on the ground, so if you'd like to connect, reach out for more deets.
I often get asked what a reporterโs inbox looks like ๐ฌ
From todayโs poll in our Fierce LifeSci & Healthcare editorial chat:
Those who have voted so far all say they get 20+ pitch emails PER DAY
If we donโt respond, this is why
๐จ๐จJournalism job alert:
Come work with us at Fierce Healthcare. We're hiring a staff writer to cover payers + health tech. You can work remotely!
DM me with questions!
One of last panels of the day on collecting data on social determinants of health & how that fits into value-based care. Fitting to end on something so crucial
#HIMSS23
So excited that my story on the lack of maternal mental health screenings nationwide is a finalist for Best Single Article at this year's
@SIIA
Neal Awards!
Story here:
Iโm at
@GoogleHealth
โs annual Check Up event, where execs are showcasing the latest developments in AI
โWe must remember that AI is just a tool and at the end of the day health is human,โ
@KBDeSalvo
says
Stay tuned for coverage from
@HeatherLandi
& me
Inspired by a recent
@WIRED
story on rising hospital infection rates, I spoke to clinicians about what can and should be done to slow the irreversible threat of antibiotic resistance. โThese bacteria are always a step ahead of us. We canโt rest."
Always fun to see the
@FierceHealth
crew in person, but even more so when itโs to celebrate
@AylaEllison
receiving a Top Women in Media award ๐
Considering the latest turmoil in this industry, I feel especially proud & lucky to work at a newsroom with women at the helm
At The Markup we:
โ Only publish on-the-record corporate comments
โ Require official spokespeople to attach their name to statements
Yet some spokespeople try to insist on anonymity. Todayโs newsletter by
@JuliaAngwin
, featuring
@jonkeegan
+
@adrjeffries
:
Happy Monday! This one's for founders (most PR reps know better): asking reporters "can you please feature our product/help us out" is the quickest way to *guarantee* 1) no response 2) no coverage
Pls do some basic homework to understand how journalism works
If only reporters could set up an auto-response for every spammy PR email to give them a taste of their own medicine (plus, it would save everyone time)...
Spammy/irrelevant pitch? "Not interested"
Follow up? "Not interested"
Another follow up? "Not interested"
The Fierce Health Payer Summit is this week!
I'll be moderating a panel on going beyond the buzz of value-based care with execs from
@ProvidencePlan
,
@DaVita
&
@OscarHealth
.
Drop your best food recs for Austin๐
I'm happy to share my chat with
@AylaEllison
on the Fierce 50 project and what health equity means to me.
Those being honored in this category are helping reduce disparities & promote equal access to quality care for all:
Lucky to reunite with dear friend and fellow investigative health reporter
@SadiaRafiquddin
at
#HJ22
. Thank you
@AHCJ
for hosting (& masking) โ feeling emboldened to help hold this broken system accountable
๐Fierce's
#Podnosis
just won a
@foliomag
Eddie award for best business news & information podcast!!
Thank you for recognizing our work. Congrats to the entire
@FierceHealth
team, and of course, we couldn't have done this without the incredibly talented
@teresa_carey
๐๏ธ๐
The Fierce Healthcare & Life Sciences teams are putting together a new special report this year: the Fierce 50.
I'm excited to serve as chair of the Health Equity category, which aims to honor those who are fostering equitable care for all. More TK!
Let me let you in on my super secret formulaic (hah!) writing process:
1. word vomit word vomit word vomit
2. trim, rearrange
3. fill in gaps
4. draft done
Each step is as important as the next. This free form approach, while CHAOTIC, best supports my creative flow
โTeens in this study werenโt, on average, clinically depressed or anxiousโฆMany of them were just normal, happy kids. Itโs possible that by teaching kids to notice their negative thoughts, the program inadvertently reinforced those thoughts.โ
SUCH an interesting read ๐
I wrote about something that surprised the heck out of me, frankly
A bunch of teens were given DBT therapy, a proven mental-health treatment. Then their mental health got ... worse. Here's why:
Heading into a 12+ hour work day tomorrow with
@electionland
. Just a reminder that weโre tracking nationwide reports of voting challenges, including misinformation, suppression + intimidation. Folks, please VOTE, stay SAFE and SEND YOUR TIPS.
#ElectionDay
Yesterday, I published my investigation into Soviet immigrants and their relationship to Trump. For many, he represented a rejection of socialism and the former USSR regime. To others, he was a triggering reminder of it. 1/
โItโs almost like the Cold War never ended.โ Many former Soviet Union immigrants living in the U.S. bond over Donald Trump on social media, but there are limits to free speech. 2020 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellow
@gliadkovskaya
(
@columbiajourn
) reports.
Today marks my last day at
@TheKingsCollege
and the most transformative three years of my little life. I fled CA in pursuit of what I then had no term for, but later would come to understand as โeudaimoniaโ: happiness by doing and living well. Thank you for that and so much more.
PSA: The wait is almost over; the Fierce 50 is going live NEXT MONDAY! ๐
It's been exciting to see your interest to learn more! Soon, you'll get to read 50 incredible profiles that we toiled over this summer.
More on the project here:
I'm happy to share my chat with
@AylaEllison
on the Fierce 50 project and what health equity means to me.
Those being honored in this category are helping reduce disparities & promote equal access to quality care for all:
NEW: I tracked Soviet-immigrant politics groups on Facebook to understand the motivations behind their vote in 2020. Spoiler: USSR trauma runs deep, like the community's fracture. Read my investigation for
@pulitzercenter
: . Thread w details coming tomorrow
a girl with unkempt hair stubbornly sitting outside a cafe in 40F and wind mindlessly smoking a cigarette before a bowl of soup on her table is how i define the people of Europe
Iโm in (freezingโฆ) Austin for the launch of the Fierce Health Payer Summit! ๐ฅ
Be on the lookout for some of our coverage of the event, which delves into care in alternative settings, digital tools, value-based care & more
NEW: How are translation services at the city's COVID testing sites?
@NYCHealthSystem
says accessible. But staff report otherwise. Errors in patient records. Jeopardized test results. More by me below for
@THECITYNY
How does anyone ever go back to plain old boring bars after this?? ๐ซถ๐ป
This tucked away Galway pub was pretty much empty except for them, playing for their own sake and enjoying one anotherโs simple company
First
#Valuebasedhealth23
panel on the efficacy of VBC in addressing disparities done โ๏ธ
Up next:
@pminemyer
moderating on advancing interoperability/SDOH!
Stay tuned for
@FierceHealth
coverage of the event
Last in-person day at the
#IHIForum
โ the morning began with a powerful keynote on the U.S. gun violence epidemic and healthcareโs role in addressing it.
NEW:
@NYCHealthSystem
says its average turnaround time for COVID-19 test results is quicker than others'. But my reporting found evidence to the contrary, with some results taking up to two weeks โ a concerning time frame for several reasons. More below.
Thatโs a wrap on
#HJ24
for me!โ๏ธThankful for the wonderful opportunity to make new friends and cross paths with veteran reporters I have long admired
Shoutout to
@AHCJ
for bringing together such thoughtful panelists & for being the resource that keeps on giving!
Out here at
#HJ24
starting off the morning strong with a fantastic session on the current court cases shaping health policy, with
@aclu
&
@oneillinstitute
attorneys
Lovely (for me) that
@AHCJ
is hosting in NYC this year โ who else is here?
Last month marked the end of my time at
@CUNYSPH
! ๐คฉ
Took classes on biostats, epidemiology, social & behavioral health, environmental health, health policy & management. I learned a ton (and remembered why I hate math). Thankful for a breather now...
Happy to have chatted about the struggle of learning to freelance post-graduation w/
@MeiraGebel
๐With the pandemic obliterating job opps, Iโm still upset we werenโt taught or encouraged independent reporting in j-school
โจitโs finally hereโจ
after three months of reporting & three dozen interviews, itโs obvious to me that journalism schools are failing students by not offering freelance education.
itโs time to update the syllabus yโall!!
my story for
@BusinessInsider
Iโve lived in NYC for nearly a decade, and I simply never tire of the park!!
Each time, there is something new to discover, contemplate, feel. It is an infinite source of calm/inspiration and I try to go no matter the weather ๐๐
๐๐Hi Philly!
Excited for the
@reutersevents
value-based health conference happening tomorrow & Tuesday โ Iโll be moderating & covering the event!
(
@MutterMuseum
, you are wild)
Iโm at the annual
@NorthwellHealth
conference on gun violence prevention.
Folks from
@CDCgov
,
@awscloud
and
@GunDeaths
discuss technology efforts needed to address gaps in data at the federal & local levels
Day โ๏ธat
#SXSW2024
, attending a fantastic, in-depth panel on the future of AI in healthcare
Also had excellent post-panel convos with panelists from
@AmerMedicalAssn
@adahealth
Stay tuned for story!