Fundfire’s Colon departing for NY Times fellowship

Shayla Colon

Fundfire reporter Shayla Colon is leaving the Financial Times publication to become a fellow at the New York Times.

Colon previously was a business reporter at The Times Union in Albany, New York.

She formerly reported for Hearst Connecticut Media Group and has interned at The Futuro Media Group in New York. She was also an intern at Gaussian Inc., a software development company and The Borgen Project, a nonprofit organization.

Colon has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Quinnipiac 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.