Narayan moves to race and equity team at SF Chronicle

Shwanika Narayan

San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Shwanika Narayan has moved to its race and equity team.

She will be covering various issues but focusing on workplace discrimination, income inequality, and poverty.

Narayan joined the Chronicle in January 2019 to cover retail and logistics.

She was previously a freelance producer/video journalist at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital vertical, where she created news videos on the daily. Prior to that, she freelanced for NBC News, Quartz and Hyphen magazine, primarily writing about Asian American identity.

The business desk at the Chronicle no longer exists but business coverage is still ongoing with the creation of new teams. The culture desk and most of the business news desk merged to create the Transformation and Tech team.

Business coverage is now spread out over that team, as well as Race and Equity, Metro, and Climate Change (mainly PG&E coverage) desks.

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.