Chatlani to cover business of health care for States Newsroom/Stateline News

Shalina Chatlani

States Newsroom and Stateline News have hired Shalina Chatlani to cover the business of health care and environmental health.

Chatlani has spent the last year in a New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship.

Before that, she was a health care reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom, a regional journalism collaboration between NPR stations in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. She also worked as a science and tech reporter for KBPS in San Diego.

Chatlani holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Georgetown 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.