San Francisco Chronicle hires three business reporters

The San Francisco Chronicle has expanded its business news staff with the hiring of three reporters.

Dominic Fracassa, who started Monday, joins from the Daily Journal, where he was an associate editor in the San Francisco office. He will be covering media, law, and telecommunications.

Trisha Thadani, who will start next week, has worked at the Boston Globe, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. She starts next week, covering business and technology news.

Catherine Ho, who has been covering lobbying for the Washington Post, is relocating to the Bay Area to join the team covering health care and health technologies. She starts in January.

They join a team of business and technology reporters that will total 10 people with Ho’s arrival.

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.