Modern Healthcare hires Young as news enterprise editor

Jeffrey Young

Modern Healthcare has hired Jeffrey Young as its news enterprise editor.

He starts this week.

“I’m excited to work with a terrific team of reporters,” he wrote on Twitter. “I hope to pass all I’ve learned about puns and curse words.”

Young previously was a senior reporter at HuffPost based in New York. He has covered health care, business, and politics for two decades at organizations including Bloomberg News and The Hill.

He is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and earned his bachelor’s degree in English from the College of William & Mary.

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.