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Crain’s Cleveland reporter Coutre departing for university job

Lydia Coutre

Crain’s Cleveland Business reporter Lydia Coutre is leaving the publication at the end of the week to join Case Western Reserve University in a communications position.

She will become assistant director for research communications.

Coutre joined Crain’s Cleveland as the health care and nonprofits reporter in 2015. Previously, she covered the health and county government beats at the StarNews in Wilmington, N.C.

She has also written for The Indianapolis Star, The Columbus Dispatch, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune and the Student Press Law Center. Coutre earned her bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from Kent State University.

She is also currently the interim data editor at Crain’s Cleveland.

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.

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