ALM hires Newsham from Law360

Jack Newsham

Jack Newsham, a reporter at Law360, has been hired by ALM to report for its publications.

As a reporter on ALM’s Business of Law desk, Newsham covers New York law firms and the state’s legal community for the New York Law Journal and other ALM publications. His beat includes law firm management and finance, competition for talent and law firm-related litigation.

He previously covered New York courts at Law360 and wrote for the Boston Globe’s business section.

Before covering courts for Law360, he covered cases and legal developments in some of New York City’s biggest industries, such as securities, asset management, banking, and white-collar crime.

Before that, he wrote about international arbitration. He has also written about Native American law, environmental law and tax law.

Newsham is a Yale University graduate in economics.

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.