Adweek lays off diversity and inclusion reporter O’Hara

Mary Emily O'Hara

Mary Emily O’Hara

Adweek magazine laid off diversity and inclusion reporter Mary Emily O’Hara, who started in February.

“My strongest skills stem from 15+ years of reporting and editing coverage of underrepresented communities, but I am also interested in branded content, affiliate link and partnership content, copywriting, diversity and inclusion consulting and community-building with purpose,” she said in a message.

O’Hara was previously an editor and reporter at Grindr’s LGBTQ news site INTO, which was shut down by the company in early 2019. She has also worked at NBC News, The Daily Dot, Vice Media and DNAInfo.

While at The Daily Dot, her 2016 coverage of emerging technology developments in transgender health care resulted in a Best Health Coverage award from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.

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.