Modern Healthcare hires Hellman to cover Congress

Jessie Hellman

Modern Healthcare has hired Jessie Hellman to cover health care regulation in Congress.

She will start March 8.

Hellman is currently the national health care reporter at The Hill.

She has been at The Hill since March 2016. She has been one of the reporters to cover health care policy and politics with a focus on COVID-19, Congress, the Trump administration and the 2018 and 2020 elections.

She previously worked for the daily newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Indiana and a master’s from the University of Illinois-Springfield.

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.