Crain’s Chicago hires Giangreco as a reporter

Leigh Giangreco

Crain’s Chicago Business has hired Leigh Giangreco as a reporter covering politics.

She previously was a researcher on WGN America’s news program “News Nation.” Before that, she was a reporter at The Capitol Forum covering defense contracts. She has also worked as a freelancer for more than five years and was a U.S. defense reporter for FlightGlobal.

She has also served as an associate editor at Inside Washington Publishers.

She previously worked in Washington, D.C., where she chronicled everything from the catastrophic failure of the Pentagon’s most expensive fighter jet program to why Joe Biden is on Tinder. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, The Guardian and Bloomberg Citylab.

After graduating from American University, she worked at a community newspaper where she wrote about heroin-dependent infants, a rodeo cowboy turned NASA worker and a Cinco de Mayo Chihuahua dog race.

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.