ALM Media hires Stokes as a staff writer

Samantha Stokes

Samantha Stokes joins The American Lawyer and other ALM publications as a staff reporter, where she covers the national business of law news.

Previously, Stokes worked for the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri Business Alert and the Columbia Missourian, a regional newspaper in central Missouri.

She has a background in investigative, business and data reporting, and was a Stabile Investigative Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Stokes earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri’s journalism school.

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.