Business reporter Ding among the LA Times layoffs

Jaimie Ding

Business reporter Jaimie Ding was among the more than 100 laid off Tuesday at the Los Angeles Times.

She had been at the Times for slightly more than two years.

Before joining The Times, she wrote for the Oregonian, the Sacramento Bee, the Associated Press and Claremont Colleges newspaper, the Student Life.

Ding was raised in the Portland, Ore., area and graduated from Scripps College with a degree in politics. She was a member of the 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class.

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.