LDI Fellows Workshop: Meet the Op-Ed Editors

Two top opinion editors will share their tips and thoughts about writing op-eds for health policy and related fields. Richard G. Jones, MA leads the editorial pages at the Philadelphia Inquirer while Chris Conway, JD is a senior staff editor of op-eds at the New York Times and NYT Sunday Review. LDI Fellows can submit pieces before the event to get live feedback during the session. Attendees will also be able to ask questions and discuss ideas they have been considering.  LDI’s Director of Content Strategy Karl Stark will moderate.

Chris Conway, JD

Chris Conway, JD is a senior staff editor at the New York Times, where has worked for 20 years, 10 of those in the paper’s opinion section. Before that, he spent four years as the political editor at the Newark Star Ledger and 18 years as a reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has a law degree from Fordham and journalism degree from the University of Missouri.

Richard G. Jones, MA

Richard G. Jones, MA is the managing editor for Opinion at the Philadelphia Inquirer where his career began 30 years ago. He was the chief academic and administrative officer of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. He also spent a decade at the New York Times as a reporter, editor, and director of a professional development program for college-student members of the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is an alumnus of the University of Delaware, where he later taught, and also has held faculty positions at Rutgers and American Universities and the University of Maryland. He holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

Karl Stark (moderator)

Karl Stark is the Director of Content Strategy for Penn LDI, where he focuses on encouraging LDI Fellows to write for the public. Before joining LDI, he worked for more than three decades at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he served as Health Editor, Business News Editor and National/Foreign Editor, among other positions. His reporting on the bankrupt Allegheny health system helped lead to indictments of the top three executives. He also served as President of the Association of Health Care Journalists, the nation’s leading group of health reporters and editors. He is a co-author of AHCJ’s “Covering the Quality of Health Care – A Resource Guide for Journalists” and leads a session on covering hospital finances at AHCJ’s annual meeting. He is a graduate of Yale University where he played varsity tennis. He also has distant memories of skating competitively with his sister Julie.