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St. Louis daily hires business of health care reporter

Roland Klose, the business editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, sent out the following announcement:

We are pleased to announce that Samantha Liss will be joining us as a reporter covering the business of healthcare, filling the Jim Doyle vacancy. That name may sound familiar to some of you. Samantha comes to us from the St. Louis Business Journal, where she has been a formidable competitor in breaking news on the healthcare beat.

Samantha has been at the Business Journal since August 2012. A Chicago native and Mizzou journalism graduate, Samantha also worked as a local editor for Patch in the Chicago area before workng at the Business Journal.

We expect her to start on or about July 14.

Talking Biz News is told that Liss did start 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.

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