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Quartz hires Inc. reporter Cheng

Michelle Cheng

Financial news site Quartz has hired Inc. reporter Michelle Cheng to write for its Quartz at Work section.

She starts next month.

Cheng is a New York-based journalist reporting on business, technology, and policy. Previously, she reported on higher education, focusing on college accessibility and career outcomes.

She also dabbles in code and often takes a data-driven approach to reporting. For a FiveThirtyEight story, she analyzed Department of Education data to show that most students study “practical” majors, which was later referenced in The New York Times.

In addition to Inc. her work has been published at KQED News, Forbes, and MIT Technology Review.

She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University.

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.

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