Pauline Bartolone is a Sacramento Correspondent for California Healthline,  she has been a radio and print journalist for 15 years, most recently covering state health policy from California’s capital. Previously, Pauline wokred for CALmatters and Capital Public Radio, where she covered health care, water and other key policy issues for the last four years. During that time, she also was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and Kaiser Health News. Pauline has won three regional Edward R. Murrow awards, national recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, and a first place prize from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Pauline has also freelanced from throughout Latin America, where her coverage of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes co­-won a 2006 George Polk award in radio. Pauline holds a BA in media and cultural studies from Goddard College and an MJ in new media from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Journalism.