Jeanne Pinder: Woman to Watch 2014

Pursuing the deeper narratives behind health care stories throughout her professional career, Jeanne started as a journalist at the age of 13. Celebrated by Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, as well as the New York Times, the Tow-Knight Foundation, and the McCormick Foundation’s New Media Women Entrepreneur’s Program, Jeanne launched ClearHealthCosts to bring transparency to health care by sharing cost information in a searchable, online platform through crowdsourcing out-of-pocket expenses from patients. WZ: When you first launched into the professional world, what career paths were you considering and how did you end up where you are? My first job was as a reporter at my family’s twice-weekly newspaper in Grinnell, Iowa. I started when I was 13. When you write for a small-town paper, everyone you know sees your writing, and they will let you know if you did a good job or not. You learn quickly that way. You learn to perform fast, on deadline, and to make no excuses. In college, I worked my way through school at that job, around 30 hours a week. By the end, I was ready to do something else, and went to graduate school in Slavic linguistics, thinking the life of the academy was one for me. Not true! I’m good at finding stuff out and telling people about it. Journalism found me and wouldn’t let me go. For that reason, I think of ClearHealthCosts as journalism—an example of what some are now calling “single-subject sites.” It is a busines...
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