Crain’s New York hires Pascus as GA/politics reporter

Brian Pascus

Crain’s New York Business has hired Brian Pascus as a general assignment and politics reporter.

He’s a 32-year-old reporter who most recently published national news and investigative pieces at CBSNews.com. He graduated from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2018, where he earned a master’s degree, and the University of Maryland in 2009, where he earned a bachelor’s Degree in history, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

As an editorial intern on Business Insider’s transportation team, he reported on the aviation and automotive industries. During his time at CBS News, he wrote breaking news pieces, global news explainers, live-blogs, obituaries, sports and science posts, and led an investigative unit’s coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged financial crimes and death.

Prior to switching careers into journalism, he sold residential real estate in Manhattan for six years.

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.