Sinha departs S&P Global for Charlottesville Tomorrow

Akash Sinha

Charlottesville Tomorrow has hired S&P Global’s Akash Sinha as its managing editor.

Tamica Jean-Charles of Charlottesville Tomorrow writes, “Sinha will join us to take the lead on giving our team direction and making sure our audiences keep getting great local news. He moved to Charlottesville 20 years ago to study English literature at the University of Virginia (the same UVA degree our neighborhoods reporter Erin O’Hare graduated with in 2011). In 2007, Sinha started working at SNL Financial, a financial news and data provider, as a reporter and after eight months, became an editor. Sinha continued moving up the leadership ranks, eventually leading the global newsroom team of over 350 journalists for S&P Global Market Intelligence.

“After leaving S&P Global, Sinha crafted a list of what he wanted in his next role. At the top, he wrote that he wanted an editorial role that is focused on people. He wanted to pivot from business journalism to service journalism.

“‘I loved the management, editing and people management side of things — that was probably one of the more rewarding parts of my previous news jobs,’ said Sinha. ‘I wanted to get back to a purpose-driven news job.'”

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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.