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McCuan leaving SF Chronicle biz desk for startup

Jess McCuan, an assistant business editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, is leaving to join Quid, a startup selling software for analyzing media impact.

Prior to The Chronicle, she was a digital strategist for Gannett and the Asheville Citizen-Times in Asheville, North Carolina. In Asheville, she was founding editor of a weekly food and entertainment guide, Scene, and founding editor of the women’s magazine Verve.

McCuan has held staff positions at Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and SmartMoney.com. Her writing about entrepreneurs, trends and travel has appeared in Fast Company, The New York Times and elsewhere.

She has a degree in philosophy from DePauw University and a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia University.

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.