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ALM Media hires Araya as in-house desk editor

Kibkabe Araya

Kibkabe Araya has been hired as an in-house desk editor for ALM Media.

She oversees a desk of five reporters covering general counsel and in-house legal departments both in America and abroad for ALM’s publications, including Corporate Counsel, Law.com, The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, The New York Law Journal and The Recorder.

The in-house desk is focused especially on legal operations, innovations, technology, strategy and trends.

Prior to ALM, she was the special projects editor at the Daily Journal, a California-based legal news provider, overseeing monthly supplements and corporate law content.

After receiving a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, she completed the E.W. Scripps Fellowship in Multimedia Reporting at the Redding Record Searchlight, now under the USA Today Network, and the Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health Reporting at The Seattle Times.

A Sacramento, California native, she’s contributed to all the major publications in the Capital Region such as The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Business Journal and Comstock’s.

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.

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