Darlin hired as executive editor at Kaiser Health News

Damon Darlin

Damon Darlin has been hired as executive editor of Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service that provides in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.

Darlin will start next month.

For the past year, Darlin has been at Reuters as editor, money and politics, in its Washington bureau.

He previously was at The New York Times, where he spent the previous three years at the policy, economics and politics site The Upshot. Before that he worked for several years as technology editor and personal finance columnist at The Times.

Earlier in his career, Darlin was a reporter at the The Wall Street Journal in Cleveland, Detroit, Tokyo and Seoul, as well as senior editor at Forbes and managing editor at U.S. News and World Report.

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.