Michael Waldholz
United States
Reporter, Freelance
2026-2027
Michael Waldholz is an accomplished health care and medical science reporter, editor, and book author. He both a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal for more than 25 years and wrote numerous front page feature stories about the biopharmaceutical industry, health care policy, health economics, and diseases, such as AIDS, infectious disease, cancer and genetics. WaldhoIz led a team that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for the Journal’s coverage of the first drugs for treating HIV/AIDS. He was a managing editor at Bloomberg News for 6 years, where he created and oversaw the site’s global health care coverage and supervised 35 reporters and editors. Waldholz is also the author of two books for lay audiences covering the first years of the gene mapping revolution. He mentors reporters and editors at several non-profit online news sites as a member of Pro News Coaches, a non-profit created by Wall Street Journal alumni, and Report for America, an organization that supports journalists early in their careers.