LA Times hires Perman to cover entertainment business

Stacy Perman

The Los Angeles Times has hired Stacy Perman to as an enterprise business reporter covering the film industry.

Perman will be working for Company Town editor Richard Verrier.

She is a longtime journalist, having worked for Time magazine in New York, Chicago, Tokyo and Berlin, Business 2.0 in San Francisco and BusinessWeek magazine before it was owned by Bloomberg. More recently, she was features editor at Adweek.

Perman is the author of three books. “A Grand Complication: The Race To Build The World’s Most Legendary Watch” was published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster in 2013. She also wrote the New York Times bestseller “In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-The-Counter Look At The Fast Food Chain That Breaks All The Rules,” which was published in 2009 and was named one of Fast Company’s Ten Best Business Books of the Year, as well as one of Amazon’s Ten Best Food Lit Books of the Year.

Her work has also appeared in publications including the New York Times, Fortune, Barron’s, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, Los Angeles, Marie Claire, and Inc. magazines.

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.