BuzzFeed hires labor reporter

BuzzFeed has hired Cora Lewis to be its labor reporter.

She starts Tuesday and will be based in New York.

Lewis graduated from Yale in 2013, and has interned at the New York Observer and the Wall Street Journal and worked as a staff reporter for the New Haven Independent. In 2011, as a recipient of the Oldest College Daily fellowship, she traveled to Gaborone, Botswana to co-found an online journalism program at the Maru-a-Pula high school.

“The changing face of the labor market is one of the biggest and most consequential stories in America today, and what happens to American workers in the coming years will be a central story for the economy, politics and culture,” said BuzzFeed business editor Tom Gara. “Beats don’t get more important than this, and Cora is exactly the kind of reporter we want to set loose to cover it: she’s young, incredibly hungry to get the story, and whip smart. I can’t wait to see what she does.”

Earlier this month, the BuzzFeed business desk hired Venessa Wong to cover the food industry.

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.