Boston Globe biotech reporter Cross departing

Ryan Cross, who covers biotechnology for the Boston Globe, is leaving at the end of the month for a new opportunity covering the same beat.

“It was an incredible privilege to work at the paper, and it’s hard to say goodbye, but I’m excited to move to a rapidly growing publication to cover science and biotech in April,” he wrote on Twitter.

He covers the biotech industry and drug discovery for the Globe. He was previously a biotech reporter for Chemical & Engineering News where led coverage of COVID-19 vaccines. He has also written for MIT Technology Review and Science magazine.

Cross is a graduate of Boston University’s master’s program in science journalism, and he studied genetics and neuroscience at Purdue University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.