STAT hires Cohrs to cover health care policy

Rachel Cohrs Zhang

Rachel Cohrs

Modern Healthcare reporter Rachel Cohrs has been hired by STAT to cover health care policy.

She starts next week and will be based in Washington.

Cohrs covered health policy and politics for Modern Healthcare in Washington. She previously wrote about prescription drug pricing policy for Inside Washington Publishers. She also worked for The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman and the Sacramento Bee. Her work also appeared in The Atlantic and other outlets.

Cohrs has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California

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.