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Bloomberg News names Armstrong senior editor for health care

Drew Armstrong

Drew Armstrong, U.S. health team leader of Bloomberg News, is becoming senior editor for health care at Bloomberg.

“It’s an opportunity to work on dedicated projects + big stories like the pandemic, do more reporting and writing, and increase the visibility of the amazing work of the reporters and editors here,” he wrote on Twitter.

He has been a team leader since January 2016, managing a team of 10 reporters and editors covering the health industry, mergers and acquisitions, policy, medicine and breaking news out of the New York City bureau.

He also spent more than four years covering health policy or the pharmaceutical industry for Bloomberg. Before Bloomberg, he worked at Congressional Quarterly.

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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