ALM Media hires Amore to cover California

Samson Amore

ALM Media has hired Samson Amore to cover the business of law in California.

ALM includes the family of legal journals including The Recorder, The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal.

Amore has been a data reporting fellow at the USC Center for Health Journalism. He previously was a reporter at dotLA, which covered the local technology industry.

He also worked at The Wrap and the Los Angeles Business Journal. Amore is a graduate of Emerson College.

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.