Newsday hires Meyer to cover business of health care and cannabis

Lee Meyer has been hired by Newsday to cover the business of health care and cannabis.

He previously was the managing editor of Northforker lifestyle magazine, writing articles for both news and print. He also assigned photographers to stories, and coordinated with the production team to manage and hit deadlines for newspapers and magazine.

Meyer also worked at Dan’s Hamptons as managing editor. He was associate editor of Soap Opera Digest.

Meyer holds a bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook 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.