dotLA hires Fortune’s Mashayekhi as an editor

Rey Mashayekhi

Tech news site dotLA has hired Rey Mashayekhi as an editor.

He will start next month.

Mashayekhi is a writer at Fortune primarily covering finance, fintech, politics, and public policy. Prior to joining Fortune in 2018, he worked as a reporter for New York City-based real estate news outlets Commercial Observer and The Real Deal, where he covered news and trends in the world of commercial real estate.

He began his career as a commodities reporter covering the metals industry for trade publication American Metal Market, a division of business publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor.

A graduate of Eugene Lang College at The New School, he served as news editor of The New School Free Press, his alma mater’s student-run publication, and was part of an editorial staff that won two Associated Collegiate Press awards in 2012.

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.