Post-Dispatch health care reporter joining Industry Dive

Samantha Liss

St. Louis Post-Dispatch health care reporter Samantha Liss is leaving the paper to cover the same beat for Industry Dive.

Her last day is next Friday. She starts at Industry Dive in September.

Liss has been at the paper since July 2014. Before that, she spent two years as a reporter for the St. Louis Business Journal.

She also spent two years working at Patch.com.

Liss is a University of Missouri graduate in convergence journalism.

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.