Illinois Answers hires Huang to cover economic equity

Binghui Huang

The Illinois Answers Project has hired Binghui Huang to cover economic equity in Chicago.

She previously covered health care for the Indianapolis Star, where she was also a business and labor reporter. She published a project with the investigative team on OSHA’s troubling deference to businesses on workplace deaths and complaints and its impact on RV and meatpacking industries.

Huang previously worked at the Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

She is a graduate of Northwestern 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.