Associate Professor
Journalism Studies
Executive Director, Association of Health Care Journalists

10 Neff Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

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LEN BRUZZESE, who joined the Missouri School of Journalism in 1998, is an associate professor in the News-Editorial sequence and the executive director of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), which moved its operations to the School in 2005. AHCJ is a fast-growing professional organization of journalists dedicated to improving the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting, writing and editing.

Bruzzese took on the role at AHCJ after seven years as deputy director with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., also based at the School. He is co-author of "The Investigative Reporter's Handbook," which is in its fourth edition, and while at IRE edited seven reporter beat books focused on different reporting topics of use to daily journalists. He has won several newspaper and magazine editing awards and was named Outstanding Alumnus in Journalism by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Before joining MU, Bruzzese worked in daily journalism for 20 years, including writing, editing and management stints at USA Today, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.), the Pensacola News Journal and Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C., finally serving as editor of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash.