Seattle Times hires Pulkkinen as assistant business editor

Levi Pukkinen

Levi Pulkkinen

The Seattle Times has hired Levi Pulkkinen as its assistant business editor.

“It’s a consequential moment for the Northwest,” said Pulkkinen on Twitter. “I’m so lucky to get to help tell the $$$ part of that story.”

Pulkkinen has been freelancing for more than three years. His reporting has appeared in U.S. News & World Report, The Guardian, The Hechinger Report and GeekWire, as well as Yes! Magazine, High Country News, Next City, and The Appeal.

Before going independent, he served as senior editor at SeattlePI, where he also reported for 11 years. He also worked at the Skagit Valley Herald newspaper.

Pulkkinen holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington 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.