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Kaiser and McClatchy

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics. Kaiser Health News is funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit private operating foundation based in Menlo Park, Calif., which is dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues.

KHN’s editors decide what stories its staff will cover, and McClatchy editors independently decide which of those stories will appear on the McClatchyDC Web site. KHN stories also may be distributed to other news organizations.

KHN's editors include Laurie McGinley, the executive editor for news, who spent 27 years at the Wall Street Journal; Peggy Girshman, executive editor for online, who was a former managing editor of National Public Radio and former executive editor at Congressional Quarterly, and John Fairhall, senior editor, who was a reporter and editor at the Baltimore Sun for 27 years.

Read more about KHN, its staff and its advisory board here.

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit private foundation that focuses on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. It was founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry John Kaiser, whose businesses included Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel and who created Kaiser Permanente to provide health care for his workers and their families.

After Henry Kaiser died in 1967, his conglomerate broke up, and the Foundation, which had been a beneficiary of the shares, sold its stock, divesting itself completely by 1985. Neither KHN nor the Foundation has any association with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries. Family members who remained active with the foundation do not hold seats on the board of either Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.

Read more about the Kaiser Family Foundation here.