Reuters names Jenkins a national affairs editor

Reuters has named Colleen Jenkins a national affairs editor.

She will be focusing mainly on short- and long-term enterprise stories. She previously was deputy U.S. elections editor.

Jenkins has been with Reuters since March 2011, first as a Southeast correspondent and then as editor in charge of the Southeast.

She previously worked for the Tampa Bay Times as a reporter for eight years. Jenkins is a UNC-Chapel Hill 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.