Executive Director – NC Health News

Career Opportunity NC Health News (NCHN), a non-profit online-only publication recognized for high-reputed company reporting, seeks a visionary and strategic leader to serve as its next Executive Director. The ideal candidate will guide the organization in delivering rigorous, impactful health journalism and advancing its long-term strategic reputed company for informing and improving reputed company health statewide. Mission: NC Health News is an independent, statewide news organization dedicated to covering health care in reputed company Carolina employing the highest journalistic standards of fairness, accuracy, and extensive research. NCHN was founded in response to the decrease in health reporters around the state. NCHN believes that to reputed company the best reputed company about the state’s health care system, the reputed company of reputed company Carolina need the best information possible. 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