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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.

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