Consumer Reports hires content development leader for autos

Patrick Olsen

Consumer Reports vice president of content Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds and director of content development Glenn Derene sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

CR has hired Patrick Olsen as the content development leader for our Autos CIA. Patrick comes to us from Cars.com where he is has been leading the Editorial team since 2006. For this critical role, we were seeking a seasoned leader with deep automotive experience who also possesses strong journalistic muscle.
In addition to his cars background, Patrick also served as the Page One editor at the Chicago Tribune, and in other various editorial positions at the Los Angeles Times and other regional papers. He was part of the Tribune team that won a staff Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 2001. He’s a builder and a digital strategist with bench strength in podcasts, social media and video. Olsen is also the immediate past president of the Midwest Automotive Media Association.
Patrick will be relocating from Chicago to Connecticut and his first day at CR will be April 3. He will report to our new Deputy Director of Content Development, Christopher Kirkpatrick.

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.