NerdWallet’s Richards leaving to teach at Syracuse

Alex Richards

Alex Richards, a data reporter and editor at NerdWallet, has been hired by Syracuse University to join its faculty.

Richards will primarily teach data journalism.

Richards has been at NerdWallet since July 2016 and was originally part of a team devoted to telling consumer finance stories in the public’s interest. He most recently has been an assigning editor. He came to NerdWallet from Investigative Reporters and Editors, where he was training director.

He’s a former Chicago Tribune reporter and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Richards also has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.

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.