Eisenberg hired by Politico to cover health care policy

Amanda Eisenberg

Amanda Eisenberg, associate editor of Employee Benefit News, a Source Media publication, has been hired by Politico to cover health care policy in New York.

She starts May 29 and will be co-anchoring the New York health care newsletter and writing stories for Politico’s broader New York health care policy and politics coverage.

Eisenberg is also the editor of She Spends, a website and newsletter that covers personal finance from a female point of view.

Prior to joining Employee Benefit News in 2016, Eisenberg completed the Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Program, which held its residency at New York University and placed her at Health Data Management, another SourceMedia publication.

A graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Eisenberg worked as editor in chief of the University of Maryland’s student-run magazine Unwind and as a copy editor at The Diamondback, the university’s independent paper.

Eisenberg has also interned with the McClatchy-Tribune wire service, NJ.com and Bustle in between stints abroad.

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.