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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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.
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“The Golden Age of Older Rectums” (for investors)
A new golden age is dawning, and it starts where the sun don’t shine.
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Wait, that was legal until now?!?
Hospitals in Maryland were suing patients over bills that should’ve been forgiven. It wasn’t illegal. Until now. How a coalition changed that. This year. Plus, our friends at Dollar For build their bill-crushing army, one Zoom training at a time.
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Introducing: Half Vaxxed
Last year we told the story — part caper, part tragedy — of how Philly handed off its COVID vaccine program to a wannabe tech bro right out of college. Now, the reporters who broke that story have made a terrific podcast of their own, Half Vaxxed.
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From our reporter's notebook: What we learned in 2020, and what's ahead, with T.K. Dutes
This episode turns the tables: Host Dan Weissmann gets interviewed about what he's learned this year, and what's ahead for the show— with T.K. Dutes, an ace radio host and podcast-maker ... who was a nurse in a previous life, so she knows a t...