JoNel Aleccia, senior correspondent on the KHN enterprise team, focuses on aging and end-of-life issues. Before joining KHN in November 2016, she was a health reporter for more than a decade, covering regional and national news at outlets including The Seattle Times, NBCNews.com, TODAY.com, and MSNBC.com. Before that, she was a reporter, editor, and columnist at newspapers in the Northwest. JoNel was a member of reporting teams that won National Press Club awards for digital journalism focused on the Great Recession and on amputees in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon.