LA Times tech editor joins Kaiser Health News as ME

Russ Mitchell

Russ Mitchell, who was the technology editor of the Los Angeles Times before taking its buyout offer, has joined Kaiser Health News.

Mitchell will be managing editor.

Kevin Roderick of LA Observed writes, “Russ joins us from the Los Angeles Times where he has been their technology editor. He has been covering the convergence of business and technology for nearly 30 years. Russ worked for 10 years at Business Week magazine before becoming managing editor of Wired in the 1990s.

“He since has served as senior technology writer at US News & World Report, executive editor and editor-in-chief at Business 2.0, and senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. His articles — including health care stories written for KHN — have also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company and many others. Based in Berkeley, he is a graduate of the University of Illinois and is a former Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

Read more here. Roderick also reports that Orange County Register business editor Bernard Wolfson is joining Kaiser as a senior editor.

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.