Providence Biz News reporter MacDonald is departing

Mary MacDonald

Providence Business News reporter Mary MacDonald is leaving the news organization.

Her last day is Friday. MacDonald, who covers health care, real estate, labor and manufacturing, is joining the Massachusetts Teachers Association as a writer and editor.

She has been with the Business News since December 2014 and before that was a development writer for Massachusetts General Hospital.

MacDonald also worked for Patch.com in Boston and for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering education.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in education from the University of Massachusetts.

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.