Crain’s Chicago hires Cherney to cover education, industries

Elyssa Cherney

Crain’s Chicago Business has hired Elyssa Cherney to cover education and some industries.

She has been covering education at the Chicago Tribune.

Before joining the Tribune in November 2016, Cherney worked at the Orlando Sentinel and covered the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting as part of a team named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

She has bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in journalism and gender and sexuality studies. She interned at the Reading Eagle in Pennsylvania and the Johannesburg Times in South Africa.

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.