Fisher leaves Dayton Biz Journal for health care company

Jacob Fisher

Dayton Business Journal reporter Jacob Fisher has left the publication to join a health care company as a content specialist.

Fisher, who covered health care, manufacturing, higher education, and banking and finance, left on Nov. 3.

He will start on Nov. 8 at Phreesia.

Fisher has been at the Business Journal since September 2019. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.