Huff Post lays off biz reporter Goldberg

Eleanor Goldberg

Eleanor Goldberg, a business reporter at The Huffington Post, was among the staffers laid off on Thursday.

Goldberg had been with the website since July 2011. Her beat was poverty and inequality.

She previously worked at Patch.com and the Religion News Service.

Goldberg holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University in journalism. While in graduate school, she was a real estate reporter for the Medill News Service.

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.