dotLA ME Uranga is departing

Rachel Uranga

Rachel Uranga, the managing editor of dotLA, announced Monday that she is leaving the tech news site for a new opportunity.

Before becoming managing editor, she covered the intersection of business, technology and culture. At the Los Angeles Business Journal, she was a beat reporter covering trade and Southern California retailers and manufacturers.

She is a former Mexico-based market correspondent at Reuters and has worked at the Los Angeles Daily News. She has covered everything from IPOs to immigration.

Uranga is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and California State University Northridge.

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.