SF Chronicle hires Kunthara as a business reporter

Sophia Kunthara

Sophia Kunthara of the Connecticut Post has been hired by the San Francisco Chronicle as a business reporter.

She will start later this month.

For the past year, Kunthara has been a Hearst Journalism Fellow covering Trumbull and Monroe for the Connecticut Post and Hearst Connecticut Media Group.

She interned for Reuters covering the economy and markets in New York, as well as for The Arizona Republic, the state’s largest newspaper, and NBC Los Angeles

Kunthara holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Arizona State University. While there, she was executive editor of The Downtown Devil, which covers downtown Phoenix.

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.