Chicago Tribune biz reporter Elejalde-Ruiz departs

Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

Chicago Tribune business reporter Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz is leaving the newspaper for a job in public relations.

Her last day was Friday.

“I’m making a leap into media relations, and start a new job mid-March,” she wrote on Twitter. “To say this was an agonizing decision is an understatement.”

Elejalde-Ruiz’s previous beats include workplace issues, the retail sector and lifestyle features, plus stints at RedEye, the Daily Herald and the City News Service.

She grew up in Washington, D.C., and has her degree in international relations from Brown 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.