Kaiser Health News hires Bichell as reporter

Rae Ellen Bichell

Kaiser Health News has hired Rae Ellen Bichell as a reporter on its Mountain States team.

Bichell has been a reporter for KUNC and The Colorado Sound since January 2018, covering the region for public radio stations in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho as part of the Mountain West News Bureau.

She also worked as a science reporter for NPR in Washington for four years.

Bichell holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in physical and biological anthropology.

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.