Business Leader hires Shaw as senior correspondent

Dougal Shaw

Business Leader has hired Dougal Shaw as a senior correspondent.

“It’s a dream role for me which allows me to do what I love as a hands-on digital creative,” Shaw wrote on LinkedIn. “I’ll be making original features about entrepreneurship which are informative, thought-provoking, inspirational and aspirational.”

Shaw previously was senior video innovation journalist, on the BBC Money & Work team. He worked at BBC News for more than 21 years.

Shaw holds a doctorate in early modern cultural history from Cambridge.

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.