Robin Fields, Senior Editor

Robin Fields

I’m a senior editor covering health, including the drug industry, insurance denials and reproductive care.

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I’m interested in hearing from patients, their families and those formerly or currently working in health care about practices that put lives at risk or abuse a system all of our lives depend on.

What I Cover

I’m covering health, including the drug industry, insurance denials and changes in access to reproductive care.

My Background

I was among the first reporters to join ProPublica in 2008, and I then went on to serve as the managing editor from 2013 to 2022 before returning to reporting. Stories I’ve reported or edited have won pretty much all the journalism awards there are. As a ProPublica reporter, I’ve written mostly about health, including stories on U.S. dialysis care, psychiatric hospitals, maternal mortality, health insurance denials and pricey prescription drugs. Before joining ProPublica, I was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where I investigated California’s guardianship system for incapacitated adults, and the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida, where I wrote about consumer scams as well as innumerable disasters, both natural and manmade.

Judge Strikes Complaint in Libel Suit Against ProPublica

by Robin Fields, Feb. 24, 2010, 9:21 p.m. EST

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Super Bowl Fun: Snap Your Congress Member

by Robin Fields, Feb. 5, 2010, 4 p.m. EST

Citing ProPublica Investigation Into University of Phoenix, Congressman Calls for Hearings

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., calls for hearings into the recruiting practices of for-profit schools, citing an investigation by ProPublica and Marketplace. "To find that for-profit institutions allegedly drew students in with disingenuous claims and sometimes outright fabrication, subjected them to onerous loans, and left them with often unusable 'credits,' is inexcusable," he said.

by Robin Fields, Dec. 18, 2009, 9:28 a.m. EST