Arkansas Advocate hires Platt to cover energy and environment

The Arkansas Advocate has hired Ainsley Platt to cover energy and the environment.

Platt will start on Monday.

She has been at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette covering the environment for the past year. She also interned for the Little Rock newspaper.

Platt is a graduate of the University of Alabama. While there, she was news editor of the Crimson White, the student newspaper.

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.