Peck among those laid off at HuffPost

Emily Peck

Emily Peck, a senior reporter at HuffPost covering business, the economy and gender inequality, was among those laid off at the news organization.

Emily Peck

Her last day will be March 15.’ Nearly 50 staffers are being laid off after HuffPost’s acquisition by BuzzFeed.

Peck had been at Huffington Post for more than nine years. She has also been the cohost of Slate’s “Money” podcast since May 2018.

She has been a senior reporter since March 2016. Before that, she was executive business editor and managing editor of business coverage at Huffington Post.

Peck previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editor overseeing coverage of management and careers, and The American Lawyer.

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.