OLD Media Moves

San Fran Biz Times reporter Rinker is leaving to freelance

Brian Rinker

Brian Rinker, who covers technology, startups and innovation for the San Francisco Business Times, is leaving the newsroom.

His last day will be July 16. Rinker plans to freelance.

He has been at the Business Times since November 2019.  Before joining SFBT, he  was a freelance health reporter for Health Affairs and Kaiser Health News and had bylines in The Atlantic, ABC News, STAT, and Men’s Health.

Rinker holds master’s degrees in both public health and journalism from University of California, Berkeley.

He was a Pulliam Fellow at the Arizona Republic and holds a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University.

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.

Recent Posts

Pacific Business News hires Meierdiercks as editor in chief

The Pacific Business News, an American City Business Journals publication, has hired Janis Magin Meierdiercks  as…

21 hours ago

Sifted reporter Nowshin departs

Sadia Nowshin, a reporter at European startup news site Sifted, is leaving to join literary…

21 hours ago

Variety promotes Shanfeld to TV reporter

Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter. William Earl of Variety writes, "Shanfeld joins the entertainment…

21 hours ago

Klimasinska named Bloomberg’s DC breaking news team leader

Kasia Klimasinska is the new team leader for DC breaking news at Bloomberg News. She…

23 hours ago

NYC event to honor Ledbetter is next week

  Paul Smalera has organized a gathering of James Ledbetter's friends and colleagues—open to all…

1 day ago

CoStar hires Scheier to cover San Francisco market

Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Rachel Scheier to cover the San Francisco commercial market.…

1 day ago