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Law360 hires Ottaway as senior employment reporter

Amanda Ottaway

Amanda Ottaway has been hired by Law360 as a senior employment reporter.

She has been working for Courthouse News since October 2017 covering the Brooklyn courthouse.

Ottaway previously worked on the Pulitzer Center’s education team, connecting grantee journalists with classrooms in D.C. and elsewhere. Prior to joining the Pulitzer Center staff she worked as a part-time sports reporter in Pennsylvania and courthouse reporter in North Carolina, and in Tanzania as a volunteer primary school teacher.

Her writing has been published in the Washington City Paper, the Altoona Mirror, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Charlotte Magazine online, in multiple poetry anthologies and featured in NCAA Champion magazine.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Davidson College, where she played basketball.

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.

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