Award-Winning Editors
Last Updated: April 14, 2010
 

News happens. Great writing makes it memorable.

A force of more than 30 reporters and editors, many of them recipients of prestigious journalism awards, creates HealthDay News and the Physician's Briefing on a daily basis.

Dr. Cindy Haines is HealthDay's Chief Medical Officer -- Haines also is the managing editor of HealthDay's Physician's Briefing daily wire service, and she heads up the company's physician-directed content division. It provides a variety of services for client Internet sites, all involving medical content being reviewed by board-certified doctors. Other Chief Medical Officer duties include overseeing a process to ensure the medical accuracy of all HealthDay content and representing the company as its physician spokesperson to the public and professional medical community. Follow her on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Jeff Walsh is Executive Editor -- Walsh has more than 30 years' journalism experience, most of them with the Gannett Company. He held a number of reporting and senior editing positions with the Gannett Westchester newspaper group in the northern suburbs of New York City.

Barry Hoffman is Founding Editor -- Hoffman has more than 40 years' experience in wire service, broadcast and newspaper journalism. He has held top editorial and general management positions with Gannett and Times Mirror and is past president of the New York State Associated Press Association. News staffs under his direction have won more than 300 national and regional awards, including the national Headliner's Award for public service, the Associated Press Managing Editors' award for in-depth reporting, and The Society of Professional Journalists award for enterprise reporting.

Jean Patman is Consulting Editor -- Patman is the former managing editor of HealthDay whose extensive journalism experience includes directing Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage for Newsday when she was foreign editor. Before that, she was the newspaper's executive news editor. Later in her career she was features editor of the Los Angeles Times and oversaw the feature section's redesign. Her news career spans more than 25 years and includes editing positions at Gannett newspapers and the New York Post.

E.J. (Ernie) Mundell is Managing Editor, Consumer News -- Mundell's experience as a journalist began 10 years ago as a staff writer at Reuters Health, where he later became managing editor for the consumer health news division. His work has also appeared on MSNBC, in Gannett newspapers, The Scientist, and elsewhere. A graduate of McGill University, he worked in film and television production before making the switch to journalism.

Robin Foster is Senior Editor -- Foster has 20 years of experience in journalism, including editing stints at a Times-Mirror newspaper in Connecticut and a Times-Journal daily in Washington D.C. Before that, she was a reporter at The Orlando Sentinel. She has been with HealthDay since 2000, both as a reporter and an editor.

Linda Searing is Senior Editor -- Searing's 38 years of editing credentials include the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, USA Today and the Boston Herald. In addition, she has written a weekly medical column for the Post for the past five years, and was managing editor for the medical journal publisher Wolters Kluwer / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. She has worked with HealthDay since 2000.

Margaret Farley Steele is News Editor -- Steele has more than 30 years' experience as an editor and reporter, including 13 years at The (NY) Daily News, where she was lifestyle editor. She began her career at the Daily Record in Morris County, NJ. She also edited Lamaze Baby and Lamaze Parents magazines and contributed to The New York Times and Connecticut Magazine.

Marianne Madeiros is Copy Editor -- Madeiros has 20 years experience as a proofreader and copy editor. Her freelance projects have ranged from medical journals to magazines. While employed at Reuters Health, she was introduced to the fast-paced world of Web-based news and has been working online ever since. Originally from New York, she now lives in Massachusetts and happily works for HealthDay from her home in Quincy.

Scott Roberts is Director of Technology -- Roberts began his journalism career with Gannett as a reporter in the New York City suburbs. He also worked in hospital public relations before he joined the burgeoning Prodigy Services Corp. as a senior editor in 1988. He quickly moved over to the technical side as senior producer, and joined HealthDay in 1999 in a similar capacity. Roberts oversees all technical aspects of HealthDay's transmissions to its clients.