Philly Inquirer biz news editor Stark departs for UPenn job

Karl Stark

Karl Stark, the business news editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has left the paper for a job at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stark is now the director of content and editor in residence at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

He had been at the Inquirer since May 2008 and had been business news editor since February 2015.

Stark is a former president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. He is a graduate of Yale 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.