Newsday biz reporter Reich-Hale is departing

David Reich-Hale, a business reporter for Newsday, is leaving the publication.

His last day will be next month.

“I’m also proud of the business of health care beat I created,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “Working with the business desk at Newsday is second to none in my career. Next for me: I’ll be a senior advisor at Northwell Health, driving content and messaging around many of the causes and issues important to the health system and its executives.”

Before joining Newsday in January 2014, Reich-Hale was associate editorial director for Patch.com and the editor of Long Island Business News. He has won numerous Society of Professional Journalists awards for editing, reporting and editorial writing.

Reich-Hale was also a reporter on Wall Street for American Banker from 2000 to 2004. While at the daily publication, he interviewed many of the biggest insurance and bank chief executives in the country.

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.