Truong named biz editor of SF Standard

Kevin Truong

San Francisco Standard reporter Kevin Truong has been named business editor of the publication.

He has been with the Standard since November 2021. He previously was an assistant managing editor at the San Francisco Business Times.

Truong was also a reporter covering digital health and payer and employer innovation in health care for MedCity News.

Truong had been a multimedia producer/reporter for the San Francisco Business Times. He is a graduate of UCLA in economics. He has also worked at American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program, The Christian Science Monitor, NBCUniversal and the Santa Monica Daily Press.

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.