Endpoints hires Pflanzer to cover health tech

Health care industry news site Endpoints has hired Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer to cover health technology.

Pflanzer will start in August.

She had been senior editor at Business Insider, where she worked for more than eight years. She became a health care editor in 2020 and reported and wrote Dispensed, the weekly health care newsletter.

Ramsey joined Business Insider in 2015 as an editorial intern. She was then promoted to the post of pharma/biotech reporter. Later on, she served as the company’s senior reporter and correspondent.

Before joining Business Insider, Ramsey was a web intern at Popular Science Magazine. She was also managing editor at The Daily Northwestern and served as cabin leader at Lutherdale Ministries.

Ramsey is a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern 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.