LA Times hires Olson to cover the consumer economy

The Los Angeles Times has hired Carly Olson to cover the consumer economy.

Her first day was Monday,

Olson has been a reporting fellow at the New York Times for the past year. She has also been freelancing for The Guardian, Architectural Digest and Oprah Daily, among others.

She previously interned for the Los Angeles Times business news desk and was an assistant editor for Architectural Digest.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley/

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.