Announcement from Economics Editor Lori Montgomery and Deputy Economics Editor Sandhya Somashekhar:
We’re thrilled to announce that Chris Rowland, one of the Business Desk’s most accomplished journalists, is taking on a new role as editor-in-chief of our transportation, energy and healthcare team.
Since joining the Post in 2018 as a health affairs reporter, Chris has demonstrated a remarkable talent for finding the big stories and executing on them with rigor and panache. He landed his first front-page story a month after his arrival, an article about price-fixing by generic drug makers. During the pandemic, Chris has focused on the healthcare supply chain and the race to develop and manufacture coronavirus vaccines. Most recently, he wrote a series of articles on aging and assisted living, serving as lead reporter on the Post’s investigation into elopement deaths in assisted living facilities, which was recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
Chris’ new job marks a return to editing. He joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where he served as both deputy editor and Washington bureau chief. Chris ran a five-person bureau that produced distinguished coverage of Washington and American politics. (Most of Chris’s colleagues from the Globe DC bureau are now also at the Post, a happy coincidence for which Chris thanks former Post – and Globe – editor Marty Baron.) In addition to providing coverage for the Globe’s presidential campaign in 2012 and 2016, Chris wrote landmark stories about the risks patients face due to the rush to adopt electronic health records and the complete dysfunction of the Federal Election Commission. Previously, he was political editor of the Globe in Boston as well as health care editor covering big pharmaceutical companies, 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.
A graduate of the University of Arizona, Chris lives in the District with his wife and their daughter. Her two oldest daughters live in Brooklyn and Vermont.
Please join us in congratulating Chris on his new role. It starts immediately.
