Fierce Biotech reporter Bayer departs

Max Bayer

Max Bayer, a senior writer for Fierce Biotech, is leaving for a new opportunity.

He has been covering the people and businesses developing new drugs.

Bayer previously worked at CBS News, where he was recently a reporter and researcher. He has also served as a news associate and associate producer. He has also interned at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WisPolitics.com, and CBS News, among others. He has also contributed to USA Today.

Bayer graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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.