Our Team
About Us
Founded by Sarah Varney in 2024, Fountain Productions creates deeply reported, narrative journalism for television, radio, and podcasts. Supported by generous donors, our nonprofit production company brings together top correspondents, producers, and editors from leading newsrooms. Together, they craft ambitious journalism that blends rigorous reporting with exceptional storytelling.
The People
Sarah Varney
Founder and Executive Producer
Sarah is an award-winning health journalist whose reporting career spans two decades across radio, television, and print. She serves as a veteran special healthcare correspondent for PBS News Hour and a contributing health reporter for NPR, and worked more than a decade as a senior correspondent for KFF Health News. Her feature and magazine stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, and Politico Magazine. Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal abortion rights, Sarah has reported from dozens of states, chronicling the seismic fallout on medical care and documenting what lies ahead for the rights of women and girls. A ’24 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Sarah studied the journalistic framing and ethics of abortion coverage in the United States, focusing on the intersection of religion, sociology, politics, medicine, and gender. Her research projects include a linguistics analysis of abortion discourse in modern American journalism and data mapping of abortion ban impacts.



