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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A medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the new administration
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Big news: Our ‘First Aid Kit’ newsletter is now weekly
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How do you deal with wild drug prices?
Tons of people spend so much time and energy trying to get their meds at a reasonable price. And we want to hear how it went for you.
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The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
The Lown Institute’s contest for this year’s most outrageous stories of greed in health care.
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This is An Arm and a Leg
A show about the cost of health care
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A listener fighting the good fight
To close out the year, we spoke with a very cool listener – a medical resident fighting for change.
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Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’
From the archives: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a $1 million in medical debt erased.
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New lessons from the fight for charity care
For instance: It's a $14 billion battle.
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The woman who beat an $8,000 hospital fee
Facility fees from hospitals are more common than ever – and one woman was determined not to pay.
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Coming soon: your stories on facility fees
