AP hires Grantham-Phillips to cover trending biz news

Wyatte Grantham-Phillips

The Associated Press has hired Wyatte Grantham-Phillips to cover trending business news.

She will start on April 24.

Grantham-Phillips has been a trending reporter for USA Today. Her previous work can also be seen in Variety, The Santa Fe New Mexican, California Magazine and more.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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.