Note from Business Editor Lori Montgomery and Deputy Business Editor Sandhya Somashekhar:Note from Business Editor Lori Montgomery and Deputy Business Editor Sandhya Somashekhar: We are pleased to announce that Chris Rowland, one of the Business Desk’s most experienced reporters, is taking on a new role as editor of our transport, energy, and healthcare team. Since joining The Post in 2018 as a health care reporter, Chris has demonstrated a remarkable talent for finding the big story and executing it with accuracy and flair. Within a month of joining, he had his first front-page story, a piece on price-fixing by generic drugmakers. During the pandemic, Chris has focused on the health care supply chain and the race to develop and manufacture coronavirus vaccines. Most recently, he has written a series of scoop stories on aging and assisted living, and was the lead reporter for The Post’s investigation into runaway nursing home deaths, which was recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Chris’s new job marks a return to the newsroom. He joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where he served in the combined role of assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief. Chris led a five-person bureau that produced distinctive coverage of Washington and American politics. Chris led the Globe’s presidential campaign coverage in 2012 and 2016, and wrote high-profile stories about the risks posed to patients by the rush to embrace electronic health records and the widespread dysfunction at the Federal Election Commission. Chris began his career as a political writer for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and as a reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer in Vermont. Chris is a graduate of the University of Arizona and lives in the District with his wife and daughter. His two oldest daughters live in Brooklyn and Vermont. Please join us in congratulating Chris on his new role, which will start immediately.
Note from Business Editor Lori Montgomery and Deputy Business Editor Sandhya Somashekhar:
We are pleased to announce that Chris Rowland, one of the Business Desk’s most experienced reporters, is taking on a new role as editor of our transport, energy and healthcare team.
Since joining The Post in 2018 as a health care reporter, Chris has demonstrated a remarkable talent for finding the big story and executing it with accuracy and flair. Within a month of joining, he had his first front-page story, a piece on price-fixing by generic drugmakers. During the pandemic, Chris has focused on the health care supply chain and the race to develop and manufacture coronavirus vaccines. Most recently, he has written a series of scoop stories on aging and assisted living, and was the lead reporter for The Post’s investigation into runaway nursing home deaths, which was recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
Chris’s new job marks a return to the newsroom. He joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where he served in the combined role of assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief. Chris led a five-person bureau that produced distinctive coverage of Washington and American politics. (Most of Chris’s colleagues from the Globe’s DC bureau now also work at The Post, a happy coincidence for which Chris thanks former Post and Globe editor Marty Baron.) In addition to leading the Globe’s presidential campaign coverage in 2012 and 2016, Chris wrote high-profile stories about the risks posed to patients by the rush to embrace electronic health records and the widespread dysfunction at the Federal Election Commission. Previously, he was the Globe’s metropolitan political editor in Boston and a health care writer covering Big Pharma, insurance companies and hospitals. Chris began his career as a political writer for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and as a reporter for the Brattleboro Reformer in Vermont.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Arizona and lives in the District with his wife and daughter. His two oldest daughters live in Brooklyn and Vermont.
Please join us in congratulating Chris on his new role, which will start immediately.
