Post-Dispatch lays off health care business reporter

Samantha Liss

Samantha Liss, who covers the business of health care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has been laid off.

“There’s a chance I could be saved through the buyout process,” said Liss on Twitter. “I’m really proud of my most recent work on air ambulances and I’m happy for the families whose massive bills were overturned.”

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.