Shira Schoenberg is an editorial writer focusing on health care, higher education, housing, and technology. Previously she covered state government for CommonWealth Magazine and the Springfield Republican/MassLive.com. She has also worked at the Concord Monitor and covered the New Hampshire presidential primary in 2012 for the Globe. Her stories on health care, the arts, courts, and government have won awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association and in 2015 she was named among the best state political reporters by The Washington Post’s The Fix.