Katheryn Houghton and Arielle Zionts

Katheryn Houghton, Montana correspondent, covers health policy and politics, access to treatment, and the business of health care in that state. Previously, she reported on health care issues for newspapers including the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Daily Inter Lake. Katheryn was an Association of Health Care Journalists fellow. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. Arielle Zionts, rural health care correspondent, primarily covers South Dakota, where she is based, and its neighboring states and tribal nations. Arielle previously worked at South Dakota Public Broadcasting, reporting on business and economic development. Before that, she was the criminal justice reporter at the Rapid City Journal and a general assignment reporter at Nogales International, on the Arizona-Mexico border. She graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.