NY Law Journal reporter Wester departing for law school

Jane Wester

New York Law Journal reporter Jane Wester is leaving the publication to attend law school.

She has been covering federal court news in New York.

She previously was a public safety reporter at The Charlotte Observer. Prior to The Observer, Wester was the editor-in-chief for the Daily Tar Heel, a news intern for the Austin American-Statesman and a metro intern at the Charlotte Observer.

She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2017.

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.