Video game industry reporter Parvini departing LA Times

Sarah Parvini

Sarah Parvini, who has been covering the video game industry for the Los Angeles Times, was among the more than 100 staffers laid off on Tuesday.

Parvini began her Times career in 2014 through the Metpro fellowship program and has reported from various corners of the country and world for the paper, including an avian flu-stricken poultry farm in Iowa, the Muslim-majority suburbs of Dearborn, Mich., and the streets of Buenos Aires.

As a Company Town reporter, she covered all aspects of the video game industry and its growing importance to the business and culture of Southern California..

As a breaking news reporter, she chased natural disasters, covered mass shootings and reported on crime. Parvini was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, as well as a member of the investigative unit that uncovered scandals at USC’s medical school.

Parvini also graduated from USC with her master’s degree and received her bachelor’s from UC San Diego.

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.