Crain’s Chicago hires Allison as AME for news

Jocelyn Allison

Veteran Chicago business journalist Jocelyn Allison has joined Crain’s Chicago Business as assistant managing editor for news.

Allison joins Crain’s from the Chicago Tribune, where she had been a senior content editor on the business desk since 2019.

She previously spent 12 years covering corporate litigation as an editor and reporter for New York-based legal news publication Law360. She began her journalism career as a reporter for community newspapers in Indiana, Ohio and suburban Chicago.

Allison is a University of Notre Dame graduate.

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.