Louisville Business First hires Deppen to cover health care and education

Laurel Deppen

Louisville Business First has hired Laurel Deppen to cover health care and education.

She starts on Monday.

Deppen has been a Dow Jones News Fund intern working at tech news site Geekwire. She also interned at the Charlotte Observer and the Courier-Journal in Louisville.

She is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, the College Heights Herald.

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.