San Diego Union-Tribune hires Rocha to cover small biz, workplace

Natallie Rocha

The San Diego Union-Tribune has hired Natallie Rocha to cover small business and workplace issues.

She will start Nov. 15.

Rocha has been a reporter covering health care and biotech companies and research specialist at the San Diego Business Journal for the past 15 months. She also interned at Fortune magazine as part of the Dow Jones News Fund internship program.

She is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene 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.