Law350 hires Rao to be a reporter

Sameer Rao

Legal industry site Law360 has hired Sameer Rao as a reporter.

He previously was an arts and entertainment reporter on The Baltimore Sun’s features desk.

He spent almost four years reporting for Colorlines and freelanced with The Guardian, Vice, The Washington Post Express, WXPN’s “The Key” and other publications on various topics.

Rao also served on the Asian American Journalists Association’s national boards.

He holds degrees from Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College.

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.