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Star Tribune hires Gilyard to cover medical technology

Burl Gilyard

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has hired Burl Gilyard to cover medical technology.

He will start on Nov. 1.

Gilyard is currently a senior writer at Twin Cities Business. He joined the magazine in July 2013 as senior writer, a role in which he writes major feature stories, as well as shorter stories for print, web, and its Briefcase e-newsletter.

Prior to joining Twin Cities Business, he worked as a staff writer for Finance & Commerce, covering commercial real estate and development. His past experience includes working at the Twin Cities Reader, Corporate Report, and City Pages.

He also worked from 2001 to 2004 as a freelance writer focusing on regional magazine work.

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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