Elizabeth Koh is an investigative reporter on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, writing about health care, social services, and government accountability.
At the Globe, her work has examined gaps in Massachusetts’ child welfare system, revealed mismanagement at the state Commission for the Blind and investigated the collapse of Steward Health Care, once the largest private for-profit hospital chain in the country.
She was previously a foreign correspondent in Seoul for the Wall Street Journal, where she covered global technology and COVID-19. She also spent three years in Florida as a reporter for the Miami Herald, where she covered healthcare policy and politics for the paper’s joint capital bureau with the Tampa Bay Times.
Her reporting has helped change state laws, trigger state and federal investigations into nonprofit misspending and prompt millions of dollars for mental health aid after Hurricane Michael. She is a two-time Pulitzer finalist: once in 2021 with Journal colleagues for their stories on nursing homes in the pandemic, and in 2025 as part of a Globe team for its coverage of the Steward crisis.
Her byline has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News and the Texas Tribune. A graduate of Brown University, she is an occasional speaker and guest instructor for the nonprofit Poynter Institute and a mentor through the New England First Amendment Coalition.