Samantha Young, deputy California editor, directs coverage of health care politics and policy in California. Before that, she was a senior correspondent focused on government accountability and industry influence. Previously, as a reporter for The Associated Press, she covered the California Legislature and the Schwarzenegger administration, statewide political campaigns, and the state’s groundbreaking climate change law. She spent seven years in Washington covering the federal government for newspapers in the Stephens Media Group. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia journalism school.