Katelyn Mullen
Katelyn Mullen is managing editor at AOL Shopping, focusing on health-centered service journalism that blends expert guidance with practical product recommendations to help readers make everyday wellness decisions. She has more than eight years of experience finding products that are worth readers’ time and money, and her coverage sits at the intersection of health, beauty and daily life.
Health guidance built around real-world decisions
Mullen’s health coverage regularly tackles the kinds of decisions readers face in their daily lives, with an emphasis on clear explanations and expert input. In her piece on sunscreen that asks whether a higher SPF automatically means better protection, she uses specialists to unpack why the number on the bottle is only part of the story and why context matters when choosing sun protection. She extends that same approach to stories like her guide to the best ways to keep cool during hot flashes, addressing a common menopause symptom with straightforward, actionable advice aimed at making a difficult experience more manageable. Across these health features, she focuses on demystifying choices rather than chasing headlines, centering the practical implications of medical advice for non-specialist readers.
Commerce coverage of wellness, beauty and everyday products
Alongside her health reporting, Mullen oversees and contributes to commerce content that connects wellness needs to specific products. Her coverage of a viral snail serum highlights how the formula softens and brightens skin while reducing dullness and soothing dehydrated, aging skin, translating skincare claims into tangible benefits. She also writes about retailer promotions, such as CVS buy-one-get-one offers on top brands, where she surfaces value-focused deals tied to everyday health and beauty staples. In her work on roundups like the best toys of 2025, she draws on hands-on product testing to evaluate items that fit into family life, emphasizing durability, engagement and suitability rather than trend alone. Across these commerce stories, she is consistent in linking product features to concrete outcomes, helping readers understand not only what to buy but why it might fit their specific needs.
Service journalism for readers managing symptoms and self-care
Mullen’s reporting often centers the experience of managing ongoing health concerns, especially where symptoms intersect with self-care. Articles about coping with hot flashes focus on comfort and control, offering readers strategies that can be implemented immediately rather than abstract discussions of physiology. Her sunscreen coverage similarly translates dermatological guidance into usable criteria for choosing protection, supporting readers who want to balance risk, convenience and cost. Even when the primary frame is shopping, her stories retain a service orientation: health and beauty products are presented less as lifestyle accessories and more as tools that can help with issues like sensitive or aging skin, sun exposure and the day-to-day realities of keeping a household running.
Editorial leadership in health-aligned commerce
As a long-tenured commerce editor, Mullen shapes a coverage area where health, wellness and shopping are closely linked. Her role involves steering product-focused stories so they remain grounded in reader benefit, whether the subject is skincare, over-the-counter remedies, household essentials or toys that support development and play. Previous senior content strategy work in digital media informs her emphasis on clarity, testing and outcome-based evaluations, which shows in articles that foreground how a product performs and who it is best for. The through-line is an editorial focus on making informed choices: readers come away from her coverage with both a sense of what experts say and a shortlist of products that align with that guidance.
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Aislinn Antrim
Aislinn Antrim is an associate editorial director at Pharmacy Times and a journalist who connects clinical advances, regulation, and the changing role of pharmacists. She writes pharmacy-centered health coverage on chronic disease therapeutics, specialty and oncology care, workforce pressures, and advocacy. Her reporting explains FDA actions, policy shifts, drug pipelines, and the real-world effects of new evidence on patient care and pharmacy practice. She often uses interviews and expert conversations to show how pharmacists improve adherence, manage side effects, navigate access and benefits, and coordinate care with prescribers. She also covers burnout, staffing strain, and the future of pharmacy practice, with an eye on how policy and economics shape work at the dispenser.
Alex Cabrero
Alex Cabrero is an Emmy award-winning KSL TV reporter who covers where health, safety and community life meet, always focused on how decisions and events affect everyday people. He has been with KSL since 2004, bringing long experience in breaking news, public service coverage and human-centered features. His beat includes public health, emergency response, technology, local infrastructure, environment and science, framed through community well-being and resilience. He reports on issues like mental health initiatives, law enforcement staffing, environmental hazards, rescues, wildfire detection tools, land-use fights and scientific discoveries, making technical and policy details clear for a general audience. He also produces many positive, everyday-life features on families, veterans, farmers, sports and local traditions. His style is direct and conversational, often built around a central person or family whose experience carries the story across TV, digital and social platforms.
Allison Palmer
Allison Palmer stands out for turning complex microbiome and brain-health research into clear, service stories tied to everyday habits. She covers health, wellness and lifestyle topics for The Sacramento Bee, focusing on emerging trends that help readers build positive, sustainable routines. Her reporting on the gut microbiome and healthy aging uses vivid case studies, including a rare supercentenarian, to connect diet, bacterial communities and longevity to daily eating choices. Another strand of her work examines oral bacteria and brain health, linking gum infections to changes in brain tissue and to simple oral-care practices. Since 2024, her wellness coverage has appeared across the McClatchy network, alongside pieces on technology, travel, lifestyle and commerce. She favors reported explainers with direct takeaways, keeps scientific detail intact, and strips away jargon to help readers build realistic long-term habits.
Alyssa Kelly
Alyssa Kelly reports on health and emotional local stories that show how everyday experiences shape people’s sense of safety and wellbeing. They work in the digital newsroom at TV6 & FOX UP, contributing text and video pieces on community life and public interest topics. Their beat centers on health and safety in ordinary settings, especially outdoors, and on animal and family stories tied to wellbeing and memory. They cover issues like tick exposure during routine park visits and long-term pet disappearances and reunions, using specific details, clear timelines, and direct quotes to make the stakes feel immediate and personal. Kelly’s headlines often foreground quoted phrases from families and pet owners, giving their reporting a conversational, human-centered tone. They also collaborate with other reporters on health and safety stories that connect individual cases to wider public concerns.