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Cincinnati Biz Courier hired Engel to cover health care and tech

Liz Engel

Liz Engel has been hired by the Cincinnati Business Courier to cover health care and technology.

She’ll also be in charge of CincyInno, which focuses on the city’s startup economy.

Engel is a Cincinnati native who has spent the past 15 years covering healthcare, restaurants, startups and innovation. Her work has appeared at Forbes, WCPO and other publications. She began her career at the Herald-Citizen and Upper Cumberland Business Journal, respectively, in Cookeville, Tenn,, before relocating back to Cincinnati in 2014.

She covered city and county government and was awarded a Tennessee Press Association award in 2009 for investigative reporting and the 2009 Kids Count media award from the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth for her writing.

Engel received a degree in English-journalism from Tennessee Tech 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.

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