Judi Hasson is a Washington-based journalist who has covered the nation’s capital for more than 25 years for daily publications, Web sites and weekly magazines. Her writing is tight, fast and accurate. She is currently an independent writer for both web-based and print products. Her projects include:
- Editor in chief of twice-weekly electronic newsletter for private sector CIOs. www.fiercecio.com
- Developed congressional profiles for a bi-annual Almanac.
- Freelance work has appeared in MSN.com Government Executive, HR Magazine, Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems magazine and others.
- Her expertise includes health care, finance, technology, agriculture and general subjects.
She has extensive contacts in the media, government, health care and the technology industries as well as the federal government and Congress. She is an expert on health care issues. Washingtonian Magazine named her one of the best health reporters in D.C. in 1995. She began her career at United Press International and understands the importance of a 24/7 news cycle. Her work is tight, fast and accurate. Experienced in taking complex subjects and turning them into easily understood ones without losing the meaning.
Editor at large at Federal Computer Week, a magazine that covers government technology. She wrote about the Department of Veterans Affairs and its health system, Congress, the startup of the Homeland Security Department, HHS, NIH, Agriculture, IT policy and management trends.
Received a grant from the PEW Trust's Internet and American Life Project and developed the report, "Dot-Gov Goes Retail" for FCW and PEW. It was the first study of the federal government's role in retail e-commerce and found that the government was making nearly $4 billion from online sales.
News editor at Congressional Quarterly where she supervised coverage of business and technology issues on Capitol Hill.
USA TODAY political reporter covering Bob Dole's presidential race and the 1996 presidential campaign.
USA TODAY health policy reporter covering the Clinton administration plan for universal health coverage.
USA TODAY reporter covering Congress and politics.
Barnard College, B.A. Urban Studies.
- She is the editor of Nuclear Reactions by Chuck McCutcheon (University of New Mexico Press, 2002), a history of the world’s first radioactive waste dump.
- Recognizing the growing importance of the Web, she has worked on collaborating and integrating print and Web-based information to form a seamless product.
- Vacationing in Kenya in 1982, she was caught in an attempted coup where more than 70 people were killed outside her Nairobi hotel. She spent the next two weeks covering the unrest for United Press International.