Purkess promoted to consumer features editor at The Sun

Laura Purkess

Laura Purkess has been promoted to consumer features editor at The Sun.

She will maintain her Consumer Champion role. She was previously consumer champion and senior consumer reporter at The Sun.

Prior to that she was a reporter for Money Mail at The Daily Mail for a year, having previously been news editor at Citywire New Model Adviser where she covered pensions, investments, tax and the advice market for three years.

Purkess has been shortlisted for 14 Headline Money awards for her financial journalism and was named Rising Star (B2B) in 2021.

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.