Fortune hires Williams as senior writer covering work and life

Trey Williams

Fortune magazine has hired Trey Williams to be a senior writer covering work and life.

He started June 6.

He has been at the Kansas City Star, where he oversaw its coverage of race and equity issues across the Kansas City area.

Williams has worked as a business reporter in New York, covering Wall Street for MarketWatch, and in Los Angeles, covering Hollywood for The Wrap.

He is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University.

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.