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Kirkpatrick to oversee special investigations, enterprise at Consumer Reports

Christopher Kirkpatrick

Christopher Kirkpatrick, deputy director of content development at Consumer Reports, has been promoted to oversee special investigations and enterprise at the magazine.

He replaces Sandy Keenan, who left to become an executive vice president at Rubenstein public relations.

In addition, Joel Keehn has been named deputy of special investigations. He previously had been senior editor overseeing health coverage.

Among the stories that the special investigations and projects team has produced in recent months are a look at metals in baby food, drugs and meat, and how some furniture tips over.

Kirkpatrick joined Consumer Reports in 2017 from the Detroit Free Press, and has been working with the autos, money and news teams to help develop journalism and story telling important to consumers.

He had been senior news director at the Free Press, directing planning of Sunday stories as well as overseeing the business and autos coverage.

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.

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