Ellen Weiss
Editor, An Arm and a Leg
About
Ellen Weiss is an award-winning journalist and leader with more than 40 years experience working in audio, video and digital newsrooms. Most recently, as Washington Bureau Chief and Vice President of The E. W. Scripps Company, she created a multimedia national investigative team and launched podcasting for the company. While there, she received her forth Peabody Award for the “Under the Radar” investigative series and the RFK’s Journalism Grand Prize for the investigative documentary “A Broken Trust,” a project highlighting the lack of justice for survivors of sexual assault on tribal lands.
Prior to that she spent nearly 30 years at NPR and served as Senior Vice President of News. In that role, she oversaw global expansion of NPR News, the creation of award-winning programs an investigative unit, podcasts and the digital integration of the newsroom
Weiss is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in international relations. She and her family live in Washington, D.C.
Podcasts
Stories
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How to avoid a big bill for your COVID test: with Sarah Kliff of the New York Times
They're supposed to be free. And usually they are. But sometimes... things happen. Here's how to keep them from happening to YOU.NYT reporter Sarah Kliff has asked readers to send in their COVID-testing bills. She's runs down the snags ...
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How to Keep Cool in a Tough Moment: A self-defense expert breaks it down
Possibly our most-useful episode ever. A listener asked: How do I remain cool when calling insurance companies?We called a self-defense teacher—because self-defense is more than hitting and kicking. It's standing up for yourself, using your words.
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How to handle debt collectors, with the TikTok Mom and a legal expert
There's a reason Shaunna Burns went viral with her videos about dealing with debt collectors: She used to be one, so she knows a few things. (Also she's smart and funny.) We fact-checked her advice with a legal expert.
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She tangled with health insurance every day for 25 years. And loved it. Here's what she can teach us.
Barbara Faubion got up every day psyched to go to work—which she says puzzled her friends. “They’d go, ‘You love your job?!? You spend your whole day talking to an insurance company. Are you kidding me?’” She wasn’t kidding. And she's got lessons ...
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We’re back! Dealing with the cost of health care seems pretty relevant right now.
There's no time like a pandemic to (a) learn to fight back against the awful cost of health care. And (b) have a good time doing it. Yep. Let’s go.
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Mental health ‘ghost networks’ — and a ghost-buster
Trying to find a therapist can be a horror story. It’s also a ghost story.
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“Your Money or Your Life”: Dr. Luke Messac’s book on the history of medical debt
An ER doc and trained historian looks at what ails us.
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California plans to make its own insulin and sell it super-cheap. Really.
California has put up $100 million to produce its own insulin. How's it going to work? (IS it going to work?)
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The best video about health insurance, ever
... and how it came to be.
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Congress fixed (a piece of) Medicare. It only took a few decades.
Lots of seniors have to pay many thousands of dollars for drugs—even tens of thousands—or do without life-saving medicine. That’s finally going to change.
