Crain’s New York reporter Spivack among the layoffs

Caroline Spivack

Crain’s New York Business reporter Caroline Spivack was among the layoffs last week.

She covered transit and climate for nearly four years for the publication.

Spivack had been a reporter at Curbed NY covering the city’s built environment through a lens of urbanism and local news. Her stories make complicated land use and civic issues digestible and get to the core of why a story should matter to New Yorkers. Her beats included housing, development, and transportation.

She began her career covering local news across the city for the New York Post, DNAinfo, the Brooklyn Paper, and Patch.

After attending Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, she earned her master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate 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.