Kaiser Health hires Wayne as ME for health policy

Alex Wayne

Kaiser Health News has hired Bloomberg News senior editor Alex Wayne to be managing editor for health policy and politics.

Wayne has been at Bloomberg since April 2010, originally as a national health care reporter covering the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

He was also a White House editor and White House team leader.

Wayne previously worked at Congressional Quarterly and at the Greensboro News & Record.

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.