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Reuters hires Begley to cover science and health

Reuters announced Tuesday that award-winning journalist Sharon Begley will join its newsroom as senior U.S. health and science correspondent.

Begley’s experience covering genetics, neuroscience, astronomy, physics, cosmology and climate will complement the growing health and science news team at Reuters.

Prior to joining Reuters, Begley was a contributing writer for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. From 2007 to 2011, she was the science columnist for Newsweek and wrote the “Science Journal” column for The Wall Street Journal from 2002 to 2007.

Begley has received numerous awards for her work from organizations including the National Association of Black Journalists, The Humane Society of the United States, the American Statistical Association, the American Aging Association and the Association for Women in Communications.

She is the coauthor of the 2002 book The Mind and the Brain and the author of the 2007 book Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.

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.