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Walrath departing Boston Business Journal

Rowan Walrath

Boston Business Journal reporter Rowan Walrath is leaving the publication to become the Boston life sciences reporter for Chemical & Engineering News.

She has been covering biotech, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Walrath starts her new job on Jan. 2.

She previously was associate editor of BostInno and Rhode Island Inno, where she oversaw coverage of the Boston and Rhode Island innovation scenes.

Walrath joined BostInno in 2019. She was previously a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, where she reported and fact-checked for Wired, Eater and HuffPost, among other publications. Prior to that, she completed a yearlong editorial fellowship at Mother Jones.

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.

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