Hitt to cover money, labor and billionaires for The Daily Beast

Tarpley Hitt

The Daily Beast reporter Tarpley Hitt is now covering money, labor and billionaires.

She previously was a culture reporter and has been at The Daily Beast since July 2018.

Hitt has been the managing editor of The Drift, a culture and politics publication, and has worked at The Miami New Times, the Miami Herald and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Harvard University.

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.