Crain’s Cleveland hires health care reporter

Lydia Coutre has been hired by Crain’s Cleveland Business to be its health care reporter.

Coutre, who started on Monday, is also responsible for covering nonprofits.

Coutre joined the weekly business newspaper from the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina, where she covered health. She had been there since September 2014, and had also covered local government.

She previously spent time at the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow. She wrote for the metro desk and reported to the investigations editor, allowing er to work on in-depth stories.

Coutre also worked for the Student Press Law Center covering open government and First Amendment issues in student newsrooms in the Central Time Zone.

She is a graduate of Kent State University, where she worked a number of roles at the student newspaper, including news editor and managing editor.

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.