Kokalitcheva among the Axios layoffs

Kia Kokalitcheva

Kia Kokalitcheva, who was covering venture capital and tech deals at Axios, was among the layoffs last week.

She previously was a tech reporter at Fortune before joining Axios in January 2017. Kokalitcheva had covering technology and Silicon Valley with a focus on the “on-demand economy” at Fortune.

Before that, she worked at VentureBeat for six months covering early-stage startups and funding.

Kokalitcheva is a 2012 graduate of Cal Berkeley with a degree in political economy.

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.