Koeze departs NY Times for Reuters

Ella Koeze

Ella Koeze, a graphics editor on the New York Times business news desk, has left to join Reuters in a similar role.

She produced data, graphics and interactive elements to coverage while collaborating with reporters across the business section.

Before she started at The Times in 2020, Koeze was a visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism website with a focus on politics and sports.

Koeze has a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied English and geography and wrote an honors thesis on visualizing the narratives in Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” She also has a master’s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in geographic information systems and web mapping.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.