LA Business Journal reporter Cutchin leaving for Palm Springs

James Cutchin

James Cutchin, who covers banking and finance at the Los Angeles Business Journal, is leaving for a job covering business for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs.

His last day at the Business Journal is Wednesday. He will start at the Desert Sun by the end of the month.

Cutchin has been at the Business Journal since October 2019. He previously was a business reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times.

Cutchin holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi. Before journalism, he worked for PwC in Hong Kong.

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.