Oregonion names Njus its business/economy editor

Elliot Njus

Elliot Njus has been named business and economy editor at The Oregonian in Portland.

Njus was previously its podcast editor since November 2019. He was also a news editor at the paper.

“I’m excited to help build on the team’s formidable work covering the COVID recession, tech, workplaces, housing and much more,” he wrote on Twitter.

Njus previously was a reporter at The Oregonian for more than nine years, leading real estate coverage during the end of the housing crash, a foreclosure crisis and a recovery that’s eroded Portland’s housing affordability. He’s also covered business, transportation, local government and breaking news.

Njus is a University of Missouri graduate.

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.