Protocol hires Levitsky to cover workplace issues

Allison Levitsky

Tech news site Protocol has hired Allison Levitsky to cover workplace-related stories.

Levitsky started on Monday.

She has spent the last two years at the Silicon Valley Business Journal covering big technology companies.

She previously spent two years at the Palo Alto Daily Post, where she covered local politics, crime, courts, education and breaking news in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos and Stanford. Previously, she spent a year at Bay City News, where she ran the regional wire service’s San Jose bureau.

Levitsky graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley.

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.