Narayan moves from biz desk to arts ed post at SF Chronicle

Shwanika Narayan

San Francisco Chronicle staffer Shwanika Narayan has moved from the business news desk to become assistant arts editor.

She has been covering various issues but focusing on economic trends, workplace discrimination, income inequality, and poverty. Narayan joined the Chronicle in January 2019 to cover retail and logistics.

She was previously a freelance producer/video journalist at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital vertical, where she created news videos on the daily. Prior to that, she freelanced for NBC News, Quartz and Hyphen magazine, primarily writing about Asian-American identity.

Narayan has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA.

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.