Reuters hires Hall from Detroit News to cover autos

Kalea Hall

Reuters has hired Detroit News reporter Kalea Hall to cover the automotive industry.

She has been the General Motors beat reporter at The News since 2019, focusing on how GM is sustaining and growing its business with existing and new products.

Before that, Hall worked as an enterprise reporter at the Battle Creek Enquirer. She was also a business reporter at the Youngstown Vindicator in Ohio.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Point Park University and a master’s degree from Michigan State 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.