Deputy economics editor Mullaney departs AP

Tomoko Hosaka Mullaney

Tomoko Hosaka Mullaney, deputy economics editor at the Associated Press, has left the news organization.

Mullaney is now vice president of The Asia Group in Washington, working on Japanese business and policy issues.

Mullaney was with the AP since May 2014. She helped guide editorial and storytelling strategy and operations for AP’s Washington, D.C.-based economy team.

She is also co-director of the AAJA: The Media Institute produced by the Asian American Journalists Association and led by a team of award-winning journalists. Its goal is to train thought leaders and sources, bringing more diverse voices to the conversation.

She previously worked in Tokyo for the AP as a business and technology reporter.

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.