Business Insider health editor Rosenbaum is leaving

Leah Rosenbaum

Leah Rosenbaum, the health editor at Business Insider, is leaving the news organization as part of its layoffs.

She has been editing about infectious diseases, parenting, chronic illnesses, and other medical topics.

She joined Business Insider in 2021 after spending two years at Forbes reporting on the business of health care and the coronavirus pandemic.

Before working at Forbes, she was a freelance journalist who wrote stories for STAT and Vice, and a graduate student at UC Berkeley studying journalism and public health.

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.