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Crain’s Chicago reporter Daniels joins Tribune editorial board

Steve Daniels

Longtime Crain’s Chicago Business reporter Steve Daniels has joined the Chicago Tribune as a member of its editorial board.

Daniels joined Crain Communications in 1995 as Washington, D.C., reporter for Waste News, a trade publication covering the solid waste industry. He moved to Chicago in 1996, and the following year joined the reporting staff of Investment News, a Crain publication covering the financial advice field.

He became a Crain’s Chicago Business reporter in March 1999 and was made a senior reporter in November 2006.

Daniels began his reporting career with the Potomac News, a daily newspaper in Woodbridge, Va. He then worked on Capitol Hill as staff writer for the Environmental & Energy Study Conference, a congressional caucus that provided news coverage on the progress of environmental and energy legislation for members of Congress.

Daniels is a 1986 graduate of Kenyon College and has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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.

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