Q2 Media Minds Roundtable Event – From Newsroom to Newsletter: Why Healthcare’s Top Journalists Are Going Independent

Sharon Goldman is the founder of Ground Level AI, an independent publication covering the front lines of AI and its impacts on the real world. Ground Level AI publishes original reporting, analysis, and interviews across the beats that matter most for understanding AI’s real-world impact: digital and physical infrastructure, including the data center buildout; enterprise AI deployment; security and governance; policy and geopolitics; and the workforce and communities being remade by all of it.

Previously, she was an AI reporter at Fortune, where she provides coverage of artificial intelligence and its impact across industries. Goldman’s reporting explains complex AI developments, including machine learning advancements and ethical challenges, offering clarity for business leaders and technology professionals.

​Liz Kelly Nelson is dedicated to helping independent journalists and media creators build sustainable careers in a rapidly evolving media landscape. With a background in newsroom leadership, digital media strategy and creator economy expertise, Liz has worked across the journalism ecosystem – supporting reporters, advising media startups and collaborating with major institutions on the future of independent journalism. As the founder of Project C, a concept she developed during her 2024 Sulzberger Fellowship at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she is focused on empowering journalists to embrace new models, find sustainable revenue, and create impactful work outside of traditional media structures. As co-founder of The Independent Journalism Atlas, Liz is working to both quantify – and build infrastructure for – independent journalists. Liz was one of The Washington Post’s first bloggers and prior to Project C, she led teams at Vox, USA Today, Gannett, and AOL. Liz sits on the Board of Visitors of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, is a member of the Beehiiv Media Collective advisory board, serves as a Knight Center for the Future of Journalism Fellow at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Communications and is a 2025-2026 Terker Fellow at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.

Tara Parker-Pope is an author, book collaborator, and award-winning journalist whose work focuses on empowerment across multiple domains of life. She has written or collaborated on books spanning personal health, relationships, leadership, personal finance, and work in the age of AI.

Across all of this work, her focus is the same: helping writers and readers gain clarity, confidence, and a sense of agency in decisions that matter.

I have an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health and is the founding editor of Well at the New York Times and Well+Being at the Washington Post. She also wrote the Health Journal column for the Wall Street Journal.