Reuters reporter Cherelus to join NY Times opinion desk

Gina Cherelus

Gina Cherelus, a U.S. general news reporter for Reuters in New York City, has left and is joining the opinion desk of the New York Times as an editorial assistant.

She will start her new job on April 22.

At Reuters, Cherelus covered breaking news, city crime, natural disasters, giant pandas, and election cycles.

She’s previously worked and written for Elle magazine, The Miami Herald, Forbes Travel Guide, Very Smart Brothas, OkayAfrica and more.

She holds a B.S. in broadcast journalism from Florida A&M 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.