Morning Brew hires Young to cover health care

Shannon Young

Morning Brew has hired Politico reporter Shannon Young to cover health care.

Young covers health care for Politico New York in Albany. Her last day will be Dec. 16.

She has covered state government in Massachusetts and Connecticut for the Associated Press and in Ohio for Gongwer News Service. Previously she reported on state and federal politics for The Springfield Republican in Massachusetts.

Young is a graduate of Boston 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.