Lydia Coutre has been hired by Crain’s Cleveland Business to be its health care reporter.
Coutre, who started on Monday, is also responsible for covering nonprofits.
Coutre joined the weekly business newspaper from the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina, where she covered health. She had been there since September 2014, and had also covered local government.
She previously spent time at the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow. She wrote for the metro desk and reported to the investigations editor, allowing er to work on in-depth stories.
Coutre also worked for the Student Press Law Center covering open government and First Amendment issues in student newsrooms in the Central Time Zone.
She is a graduate of Kent State University, where she worked a number of roles at the student newspaper, including news editor and managing editor.
