Reporter Schaffner departs Automotive News

Carly Schaffner

Automotive News reporter Carly Schaffner has left the publication after nearly four years.

She had been covering the Southern California-based auto brands and burgeoning EV startups.

Before that, she was an assigning editor at Forbes Wheels, an automotive vertical focused on providing product news and industry trends. Before that, she served as managing editor at Trucks.com, a news site which provides insights on trucking news.

She has also held business communication roles at the Financial Times and the editorial arm of Thomson Reuters.

Schaffner holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in communication from New York University.

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.