Fortune health care reporter Mukherjee is leaving

Sy Mukherjee

Sy Mukherjee, who covers health care for Fortune magazine, is leaving the publication at the end of the month.

“In fact, I’m leaving journalism altogether after 9 years as a health reporter to launch an exciting, and very different, new chapter,” he wrote on Twitter.

Mukherjee has been with Fortune since March 2016 and also covered biopharmaceuticals. He helped run a new daily digital newsletter.

Before Fortune, Mukherjee was editor of BioPharma Dive, an Industry Dive newsletter.

He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

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.