Media reporter Ellison among the Washington Post layoffs

Sarah Ellison

Sarah Ellison, who has been covering the media business for The Washington Post since 2017, was among the layoffs this week.

Before that, she was a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and a frequent contributor to the magazine’s blog, Hive.

Ellison spent a decade as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Paris, London and New York before joining the magazine. She started her journalism career in the Paris bureau of Newsweek.

Her 2010 book, “War at the Wall Street Journal,” chronicles Rupert Murdoch’s unsolicited takeover of the Dow Jones news empire. The book was named one of Bloomberg’s Top 50 Business Books. Sarah has served as a contributor to CNBC and has appeared frequently on NBC, MSNBC, Frontline, and CNN.

Ellison graduated with honors 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.