NY Times hires Koeze as business graphics/multimedia editor

Ella Koeze

New York Times business editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement to the staff:

We are pleased to announce that Ella Koeze will be joining us as a graphics/multimedia editor in the Business section.
Ella comes to us from FiveThirtyEight, where for the past few years she has produced some of the site’s sharpest (and at times whimsical) data-driven and visual stories.
Ben Casselman, who previously worked with Ella, said she’s a smart, creative and practical editor who improves every project she touches. “Ella had a reputation at FiveThirtyEight for being the person to go to when you had a great idea but you had no idea how to make it work,” he said.
Ella grew up in Michigan, holds a master’s in cartography and geographic information systems from the University of Wisconsin and has a peanut butter named after her. She is an avid fan of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” which she has covered, multiple times.
She starts on Monday, March 9. Join us in welcoming her.

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.