WSJ hires new medical devices reporter

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Stefanie Ilgenfritz, an editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Monday afternoon:

We have a new reporter in the Health & Science group, Christopher Weaver, who will be covering medical devices and part of the pharmaceutical industry. Chris has covered insurers, hospitals and state and federal health agencies from Washington for the last few years as a reporter for Kaiser Health News. Before that, he interned at ProPublica. He’s from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and is a graduate of Tulane University. He worked briefly for nonprofit health care organizations in Louisiana before entering journalism.
Please join me in welcoming Chris to the Journal, and share any advice that you have about defibrillators.

Weaver also has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. He covered hospital billing practices, insurers’ strategies, and states’ struggles with health spending for the Kaiser news service. Before joining Kaiser Health News, he wrote for Part B News, a UCG publication.

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.