Rose Conlon
Health ReporterRose Conlon was a reporter for KMUW and the Kansas News Service from 2022 to 2025. She covered the intersections of health, politics and religion.
In 2025, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy awarded Rose the David Nyhan Emerging Talent Journalism Prize for her reporting on women’s health, reproductive rights and rural health care access.
Rose has also been recognized with national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story on religious shareholder activism, and the Public Media Journalists Association for her reporting on turmoil at a Wichita abortion clinic, pregnancy-associated domestic violence and nursing home regulatory concerns. Her work received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and numerous honors from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters and the Kansas Press Association.
Before joining KMUW, Rose was a Los Angeles-based producer for Marketplace Morning Report. She’s originally from Washington state.
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Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect.
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The Trump administration's sweeping tariffs are reshaping the aviation industry. It means challenges and opportunities for businesses in Wichita, Kansas, often called the air capital of the world.
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Advocates say understaffing at the Kansas agency that regulates adult care homes puts elderly and disabled residents at risk of abuse and neglect. -
one small town in Kansas brings nursing home residents and students together as it tests a strategy for boosting quality of life across generations.
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One Wichita manufacturer says tariffs are buoying demand for its products. But industry leaders warn of long-term harm to American planemakers. -
A group of Kansas women say the ‘pregnancy exclusion’ in the state’s Natural Death Act violates the Kansas Constitution. -
Kansas averages 25 dangerously hot days per year. That’s 10 more than it would in a world without climate change, according to the report. -
“The next three and a half years are going to continue to be very bumpy” for the reproductive rights movement, says Kathryn Boyd. “We just have to be ready.” -
Research shows intergenerational connection boosts wellbeing. The residents of Logan are putting that to the test. -
Research shows intergenerational connection boosts wellbeing. The residents of Logan are putting that to the test.
