Georgia Health News has entered the growing group of independent websites covering health news.
The site’s mission is “to fill the widening gap in media coverage by creating a substantive website that will provide crucial information about health care in Georgia.” It features original stories as well as links to health stories published by other Georgia media outlets.
The new site, founded by AHCJ board member Andy Miller, has applied for federal nonprofit status. Patricia Thomas, an AHCJ member and the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, serves on GHN’s board of directors.
Miller covered health care at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution until he left the paper in 2009.
The site joins ventures such as Health News Florida, the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, Kaiser Health News, ProPublica, California Watch and others that were collectively referred to as a thriving “new journalism ecosystem” in a recent study.
