Business Insider hires Torrence to cover digital health

Rebecca Torrence

Business Insider has hired Fierce Healthcare reporter Rebecca Torrence to cover digital health.

She will start May 9.

Torrence currently covers health care technologies and the businesses innovating at Fierce, following a range of issues from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Previously, she has written about the coronavirus pandemic for Bloomberg News and the Tampa Bay Times.

Torrence graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in neuroscience and currently lives in Washington.

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.