Chris Rowland takes on new role as editor of the transport, energy and healthcare team

July 1, 2024

Announcement 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 Health team.

Since joining the Post in 2018 as a health care business reporter, Chris has demonstrated a remarkable talent for tracking down the big story and executing it with accuracy and verve. Just a month after taking the job, he landed his first cover story, a piece on price-fixing by generic drug makers. During the pandemic, Chris has focused on the health care supply chain and the race to develop and produce coronavirus vaccines. Most recently, he wrote a series of breakout stories on aging and assisted living and was lead reporter on the Post’s investigation into walk-out deaths in assisted living facilities, which won an award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

Chris’s new job marks a return to the daily grind of the newsroom. He came to The Post from the Boston Globe, where he held the combined role of deputy editor and Washington bureau chief. Chris led a five-person bureau that produced outstanding coverage of Washington and American politics. (Most of Chris’s colleagues from the Globe’s Washington, D.C. bureau are now also at The Post, a happy coincidence for which Chris thanks former Post and Globe editor Marty Baron.) In addition to the Globe’s coverage of the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, Chris wrote outstanding stories about the risks patients face from the rushed adoption of electronic health records and the utter dysfunction of the Federal Election Commission. Previously, he was the Globe’s political editor for the Boston metropolitan area, as well as a health writer covering the pharmaceutical industry, 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 their daughter. His two older daughters live in Brooklyn and Vermont.

Please join us in congratulating Chris on his new role. He starts immediately.