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Milwaukee biz journal names new health care reporter

Rich Kirchen, the Milwaukee Business Journal’s senior reporter, will be taking over the paper’s health care beat. He has previously covered banking and manufacturing.

A story on its website states, “Reporter Stacy Vogel Davis will assume the banking beat and continue covering the retail and travel industries.

“In addition, Wendy Strong has been appointed to the new position of multi-media reporter. Previously, Strong had been the paper’s broadcast reporter, appearing nightly on WITI-TV (Channel 6).

“Strong will cover small business and education, along with writing the weekly small business feature for the print edition. In addition, she will continue with one nightly newscast on Channel 6 and write daily for The Business Journal’s website.

“The Business Journal’s website has seen a 25 percent increase in page views in 2012 compared with 2011.”

Read more here.

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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