Health care reporter Reed leaving Washington Biz Journal

Tina Reed

Tina Reed, a health care reporter at the Washington Business Journal for the past four years, is leaving the news organization.

Reed is joining FierceMarkets, a Washington-based digital media publisher that reports and publishes daily news and analysis to business professionals in telecom, technology, life sciences, health care, and other industries.

Reed will be executive editor of FierceHealthcare, and she starts April 2.

Reed has been with the Business Journal since January 2014. Before that, she was a reporter and online content editor for the Capital Gazette. As a reporter there, she covered health, health care, the U.S. Naval Academy, military affairs and education stories in Annapolis, Maryland.

Reed also worked at AnnArbor.com and at the Ann Arbor News in Michigan as a business reporter and multimedia producer.

She is a Michigan State University graduate.

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.