SF Biz Times reporter Rauber announces retirement

Chris Rauber, a business reporter for the San Francisco Business Times, announced that he is retiring at the end of October.

“I plan to continue writing on my own projects, including freelance journalism and possible book and other projects,” said Rauber in an email to Talking Biz News. “But ditching the 9-to-5 (actually more like the 7:30am to 7:15pm, counting commuting and longer hours).”

Rauber has been a reporter for the American City Business Journals paper since February 2004, covering the health care, nonprofits/philanthropy, and education beats. He also worked at the paper from October 1989 to May 1998 as associate editor and as its East Bay bureau chief.

He previously was a senior editor at HealthLeaders Magazine from November 1999 to August 2003. Rauber was also the San Francisco bureau chief for Modern Healthcare, a Crain publication from June 1998 to October 1999, covering the managed care industry nationally, as well as regional breaking news in Northern California, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.

Rauber also edited trade publications from 1979 to 1983 for Miller Freeman Publications. He is a graduate from Brown University in English and American literature.