Union-Tribune hires Schulz from Forbes

Sam Schulz

The San Diego Union-Tribune has hired Forbes senior editor Sam Schulz to be its watchdog and government editor.

She will start July 11.

Schulz has been at Forbes for the past year. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, where she was the newsletter strategy editor, and was the lead in growing newsletters at Forbes.

Schulz joined the Los Angeles Times in 2019 from Bloomberg News, where she edited features, enterprise and newsletters and launched the company’s premium newsletters for digital subscribers.

Previously, she was a senior editor at Politico, focusing on state and local politics and policy, and at NBC.

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.