Journalist Vinlaun departs Xconomy

Frank Vinlaun

Xconomy senior editor Frank Vinlaun has left the biotech news organization, where he had been for the last six years.

“The past six years have been a great ride. I’m grateful I had the opportunity to write about emerging therapies and technologies aiming to transform the treatment of disease,” he wrote on Twitter.

Vinluan is a business journalist with experience covering technology and life sciences.

Based in Raleigh, he was a staff writer at the Triangle Business Journal covering technology, biotechnology and energy before joining MedCityNews.com as North Carolina bureau chief. Prior to moving to North Carolina’s Research Triangle in 2007 he held business reporting positions at The Des Moines Register and The Seattle Times.

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.