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WSJ reporter Evans departs for Tradeoffs

Melanie Evans

Wall Street Journal reporter Melanie Evans has left the news organization for Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization focused on health policy.

She will start on Nov. 18.

Evans covered the hospital industry for The Journal in New York. She reported on the business of running hospitals, healthcare quality and the ways technology is changing both.

Her stories focused on how hospitals set prices and collect bills and the Covid-19 pandemic. She also routinely covered hospital consolidation, use of patient data in medicine and business development, and ways the hospital industry is changing as more medical care is delivered elsewhere.

Prior to joining the Journal in 2016, Evans covered hospitals and healthcare care at Modern Healthcare and the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune.

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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