FT’s CPG Specialist hires Schram as a senior reporter

Lauren Elkies Schram

Lauren Elkies Schram has joined CPG Specialist, a Financial Times publication, as a senior reporter covering food and beverages.

She has been freelancing for the past year, and her work has appeared in Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, the New York Post, the New York Daily News and ICSC’s Commerce + Communities Today.

Schram previously was deputy editor of the Commercial Observer from January 2014 to April 2019 and a reporter and web editor for The Real Deal from 2006 to 2012. She also worked at The New York Sun and Crain’s New York Business.

Schram holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida Atlantic 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.