Review-Journal hires Drewes as business reporter

Emerson Drewes

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has hired Emerson Drewes as a general assignment business reporter.

Drewes has been interning on the Seattle Times business news desk.

She had also interned for the Los Angeles Times and the Review-Journal.

Drewes is a graduate of the University of Nevada, where she was executive editor of the Sagebrush.

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.