Inc. hires Donaldson as a reporter

Ali Donaldson

Inc. magazine has hired Ali Donaldson as a reporter covering innovation and entrepreneurship.

She has spent the last nine months as a graduate student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Donaldson previously spent four years at Bloomberg News as a news producer and a line producer. She was also a news associate at CNN.

She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.

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.