Law360 hires Rippertoe to cover legal industry

Rachel Rippertoe

Law360 has hired Rachel Rippertoe as a general assignment reporter covering the legal industry.

She started on Monday.

Rippertoe has been working for the Associated Press as a contractor covering election data. She previously was a reporter for the Mott Haven Herald, and she also interned for City Limits covering housing and transportation in New York. She also interned at the Nashville Business Journal.

Rippertoe has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Portland and a master’s degree from the Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY.

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.