Darmiento now covering aerospace for LA Times

Los Angeles Times reporter Laurence Darmiento is now on the aerospace beat.

He has been covering wealth, deals and dealmakers for the publication.

Darmiento joined the Times in 2015 as an assistant business editor. He previously was editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. Prior to that, he spent six years as managing editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, where he edited several stories honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Darmiento, who attended Cornell University, has worked as a reporter at the Business Journal, Los Angeles Daily News and other local newspapers.

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.