Huffington Post biz reporter Ferro leaving for law school

Shane Ferro, a business reporter for the Huffington Post, is leaving at the end of the week to attend law school.

Ferro plans to study law at Columbia University, she told Talking Biz News.

Ferro has been with Huffington Post for the past year, covering the new economy and the future of work. Before that, Ferro was a reporter at Business Insider, where her reporting included stories about inequality, employment, the gender wage gap, and how everyday life intersects with economics.

Ferro also previously worked at Reuters, where she wrote the Counterparties email analyzing the day’s most important business news story. She also created and wrote for the Equals blog, writing and editing posts on gender, economics, and education, and aggregated the best business and economics reporting daily for Counterparties.com.

Ferro is a 2011 graduate of Columbia 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.