Auto reporter Maynard to join WBUR/NPR

Micheline Maynard, former auto industry reporter for USA Today and the New York Times, has been hired by NPR and WBUR’s “Here & Now” as a senior editor.

She will start in January. On LinkedIn, Maynard wrote, “I’ll be a senior editor, based in Boston. It’s exciting to return to public media, working with a terrific team.”

For the past few years, Maynard has been editor of the Curbing Cars project and a contributor on Forbes.com. She also spent a year as the director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University and as a visiting professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism.

Maynard worked at the Times from 2004 to 2010, including a stint as its Detroit bureau chief. She was also Detroit bureau chief of USA Today from 1990 to 1999.

Maynard has degrees from Michigan State University. She was also a Bagehot Fellow and holds a certificate in business and economics journalism from Columbia University.

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.