Yahoo Finance hires Bratton as a reporter

Laura Bratton

Laura Bratton has been hired by Yahoo Finance as a breaking business news reporter.

She has been working at Quartz as a tech reporter and co-author of the “Daily Brief” newsletter.

Before Quartz, she worked at The Messenger as a breaking business news reporter.

Bratton was an intern for New Hampshire Public Radio. She also was a producer for “Shoresides,” a local journalism project in rural coastal North Carolina. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree from CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

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.