BuzzFeed biz desk hires food reporter

BuzzFeed business editor Tom Gara sent out the following staff hire announcement:

Hi all,
I’m very excited to announce Venessa Wong will join the BuzzFeed News business team covering the most delicious of all beats: the food industry.
Venessa was previously at Bloomberg Businessweek, where she worked on some truly delightful pieces including the epic Chipotle: The Definitive Oral History and this one explaining a powerful truth: There’s No Such Thing As Nacho Cheese.
At BuzzFeed she will be covering the biggest names in the food business, and how they are responding to America’s fast-changing eating habits. Central to this will be the declining fortunes of some of the country’s biggest and most iconic companies, like McDonald’s and Coca Cola, and the rise of a new generation of food giants.
It’s a super fun beat and Venessa is perfect for it, so please give her a warm welcome!

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.