Crain’s New York hires Kaufman to cover health care

Maya Kaufman

Crain’s New York has hired Maya Kaufman to cover health care.

She will start later this month.

Kaufman has been working at Patch New York since February 2019 covering Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills and Bayside. Her reporting has been picked up by The New York Times, the New York Post, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, Gothamist, PIX11, Curbed, the Queens Chronicle and the Queens Daily Eagle.

She previously worked at Bloomberg News as a researcher. And she interned at the Columbus Dispatch and the Miami Herald.

Kaufman holds a bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.