Larry Tye runs the Foundation’s Health Coverage Fellowship, which is designed to help the media do a better job covering critical health issues. Now in its 10th year, the Fellowship each spring trains ten medical journalists from newspapers, radio stations and TV outlets from across the country on topics ranging from public health and mental health to expanding insurance coverage and controlling costs.  

Tye brings 20 years of journalism experience to the program,15 of them as a medical and environmental writer at the Boston Globe, along with 12 years teaching journalism at Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts and Harvard. Before starting at the Globe in 1986, Tye was a reporter at the Anniston Star in Alabama and the Courier-Journal in Louisville. He also was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

Tye has written four books: The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations, Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora, Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, and Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend. He co-authored, with Kitty Dukakis, Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. He is now writing for Random House a biography of America's most enduring hero of the last century, Superman.