Business of Business hires Ho as senior writer

Karen Ho

Business of Business has hired Karen Ho as a senior writer.

She has been at Business Insider covering the business of sustainability. Ho previously was at Quartz as a global finance and economics reporter.

Ho has reported for outlets including FiveThirtyEight, Time, GQ, Refinery29, The Outline, Interview, The Daily Beast, and more.

Ho has been nominated twice for Canada’s National Magazine Awards and named to Longform’s Best of 2015 list in the crime category. She spent a year as a Delacorte Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review, and previously, she was a business reporting intern at the Globe and Mail and other outlets, and reported on business for local newspapers in her native Canada’s Northwest Territories.

She received a diploma in journalism from Centennial College in Toronto, a BA in English and journalism from the University of Toronto, and a master’s in business and economics journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied data journalism as well as corporate finance and operations management at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

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.