Med tech/health care reporter Carlson departs Star Tribune

Joe Carlson

Joe Carlson, who covered medical technology and health care for the Minneapolis Star Triune, has left the newspaper.

Carlson is becoming a senior researcher at Blue Heron Research Partners. He will start his new job on Aug. 2.

Carlson has covered health care beats full time since 2008, including medical technology, not-for-profit providers and health care legal affairs. His stories tend to blend health care business affairs and patient-focused information. He also spent time covering COVID-19 during the past 18 months.

Before joining the Star Tribune in 2014, he worked at Modern Healthcare for six years based in Chicago.

Carlson also worked for the Times of Northwest Indiana as a federal courts and investigative reporter.

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.