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Landro among those leaving WSJ

Laura Landro

Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal’s Informed Patient columnist and an assistant managing editor, is among those who are leaving the paper on Thursday due to taking the buyout offer.

She is also the author of “Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer.”

Landro joined the New York bureau of the Journal in 1981 as a reporter covering the entertainment, cable and publishing industries and was named marketing and media editor in May 1991. She assumed her current position in November 2001. She also writes the Health Matters  column for the Encore section,  is a contributor  to WSJ special reports on health care innovation, and is an editorial host for the WSJ CEO Council overseeing the  health care panel.

Landro is the recipient of the Gerald Loeb award for deadline reporting and the New York Women in Communications, Inc. Matrix Award in the newspaper category, honoring her achievements in journalism.

Her story, “Dose of Prevention: Six Prescriptions To Ease Rationing In U.S. Health Care” was one of a series of seven Journal articles awarded the 2004 prize from the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation, which recognizes excellence in health-care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and impact of health-care policy. The series was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2004.

Landro began her journalism career with McGraw-Hill World News in London and worked as a full-time correspondent and editor for the McGraw-Hill Energy Newsletter Group before joining Business Week magazine as a staff editor.

Landro received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.

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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