Dowdell joining Reuters data team

Jaimi Dowdell

Investigative journalist Jaimi Dowdell has been hired by Reuters and will be joining its data team.

She will start in June and will report to Janet Roberts, the editor in charge of data journalism.

Dowdell most recently has been a consultant and project manager for the Asian American Journalists Association. Before that, she was a Spotlight fellow at the Boston Globe.

Dowdell spent nearly nine years with Investigative Reporters and Editors as a trainer, running workshops. She trained hundreds of professional and student journalists worldwide on data journalism and investigative reporting techniques.

She also worked as a computer-assisted reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 2005 to 2008.

Dowdell has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

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.