San Francisco Standard hires D’Onfro as a biz reporter

Jillian D'Onfro

Jillian D’Onfro

The San Francisco Standard has hired Jillian D’Onfro as a business reporter.

She will start May 20.

For the last eight months, D’Onfro has been a local editor at SFGATE, where she covered the Bay Area’s nine counties from many different angles, including transit, real estate, business, education and wildlife. She wrote about the people, places and experiences that make this region special, as well as the area’s challenges.

Before joining the team in 2023, she covered technology, business and Silicon Valley culture at publications including Business Insider, where she was enterprise technology editor, CNBC and Forbes.

D’Onfro is a Syracuse 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.