Freelance Beat Leader

Anna Medaris is a freelance health and lifestyle journalist with 15 years of experience writing features, narratives, explainers, and news hits for publications including the Washington Post, Women’s Health, Vox, Cosmopolitan, US New & World Report, Everyday Health, AARP, Monitor on Psychology, among others. She left her last full-time role as health correspondent for Business Insider to go freelance full time in June 2023. Anna is passionate about, and skilled in, telling sensitive human-interest stories, critiquing quirky cultural trends, and answering questions you didn’t know you had. She’s appeared on the “TODAY Show,” “Good Morning America,” Hulu’s “Age of Influence,” and many podcasts and local TV and radio stations. Anna also serves as AHCJ’s New York City chapter lead and as a writing coach through the New York Writing Room. She graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan in 2009 and later earned her master’s in interactive journalism from American University. She’s an avid swimmer who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their basset rescue, Lou Longbody.