Philly Inquirer taps Jones to cover economic equity

Layla Jones

The Philadelphia Inquirer has named Layla Jones as its economic equity reporter.

Jones spent the past year as a reporter on the Inquirer’s A More Perfect Union project.

Before that, she was a general assignment reporter for Billy Penn and director of communications for the City of Philadelphia. Jones has also been a political reporter for The Philadelphia Tribune and a web content producer for Philly.com.

She is a Temple University graduate.

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.