Chris Roush

Chris Roush is the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in business journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2010, he was named the Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

After his first job covering cops and courts for the St. Petersburg Times, Roush covered various business beats for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Tampa Tribune, BusinessWeek, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Bloomberg News. He also was editor in chief of SNL Financial, which publishes newsletters and magazines for investors, and started a monthly magazine there called Insurance Investor, now defunct. He was a contributing editor to Business North Carolina magazine from 2004 to 2007.

Roush has been quoted about business journalism in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and American Journalism Review and has written about business journalism education in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and The Business Journalist, the publication of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

He blogs about business journalism at www.talkingbiznews.com and has also created a Web site on the history of business journalism at www.bizjournalismhistory.org.

In addition to running Reynolds Center workshops, Roush has led business journalism training sessions for media organizations such as the Associated Press, Reuters, The Motley Fool, Media General newspapers, The Orlando Sentinel, The Mobile Register, the South Carolina Press Association, the International Center for Journalists and newspapers throughout North Carolina. He has also worked with media outlets and universities in South Africa to improve business journalism in that country.