KFF Health News executive editor Darlin retiring

Damon Darlin

Damon Darlin, executive editor of KFF Health News, is retiring after five and a half years in that role.

Before joining KFF Health, Darlin was at Reuters as editor, money and politics, in its Washington bureau.

He previously was at The New York Times, where he spent the previous three years at the policy, economics and politics site The Upshot. Before that he worked for several years as technology editor and personal finance columnist at The Times.

Earlier in his career, Darlin was a reporter at the The Wall Street Journal in Cleveland, Detroit, Tokyo and Seoul, as well as senior editor at Forbes and managing editor at U.S. News and World Report.

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.