Andy East covers the business, health care and general assignment beats for The Republic in Columbus, Indiana. He was most recently a reporter for Finance Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, and has also worked for the Texas Tribune as an investigative reporting fellow, and as a reporter for The Austin American-Statesman, PolitiFact Texas and the Dallas Morning News. East is a Columbus native and has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas in Austin. (March 2019)