Kenen becomes editor at large for health care at Politico

Joanne Kenen

Joanne Kenen, executive editor of health care coverage at Politico, has been named editor at large for health care.

In the new role, Kenen will be able to write more and come up with health care projects.

She has been executive editor of health care since February 2016. Before that, Kenen was health care editor and deputy health care editor. She joined Politico in September 2011.

Before that, Kenen worked at CQ Roll Call covering health policy. She also spent 23 years at Reuters as a national correspondent, where she covered Congress and two presidential campaigns.

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.