S&P Global hires two new health care reporters

S&P Global Markets has hired two new health care reporters.

Julianne Wey is covering emerging small-cap and mid-cap biopharmaceutical companies as well as gene sequencing technology. She is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wey is a recent graduate of Rice University, where she was the opinions editor and head copy editor at The Rice Thresher. She was previously editor in chief at Odyssey Online, a social content platform spanning over 80 college campuses in the U.S. There she managed a team of 10 to 20 contributing writers. She is fluent in Mandarin.

Ricky Zipp is covering federal policy affecting health care providers and medical technology companies as well as trends in state health care policy. He is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Zipp recently earned his master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. At the Medill News Service in Washington, he specialized in national security and covered briefings at the Pentagon. He was also a recipient of the White House Correspondents’ Association Scholarship.

An Oregon native, Zipp has written for the Bend Bulletin and the Daily Barometer, Oregon State’s student paper.

Both started on Monday.

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.