Crain’s Chicago hires Jay as a general assignment reporter
Corli Jay
Corli Jay has been hired as a general assignment reporter at Crain’s Chicago Business.
A story on its website states, “In addition to assisting Crain’s editors with day-to-day breaking news, Jay will cover affordable housing and labor and workforce issues.
“Jay comes to Crain’s from the Hyde Park Herald, where she was a reporter since March 2021. Before that, she worked as a freelance reporter for a several local publications and had a number of fellowships at City Bureau, a nonprofit civic media organization based on the South Side. Jay also served as an editor and writer for What’s the Word TV.
“Jay received a bachelor’s degree in public relations, advertising and applied communication in 2018 from Chicago State University, where she was also a member of the Tau Sigma national honor society.”
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.