SF Chronicle hires Narayan to cover retail and logistics

Shwanika Narayan

The San Francisco Chronicle has hired Shwanika Narayan to cover retail and logistics.

“Retail is an important topic for us as international trade wars, rising rents and wages and low unemployment, and the continuing surge in e-commerce reshape traditional brick-and-mortar shopping environments,” said business editor Owen Thomas. “San Francisco is a unique testbed for how these trends will play out nationwide.”

Narayan previously worked at the Los Angeles Business Journal, where she covered the manufacturing, retail and trade beats.

She was previously a freelance producer/video journalist at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s digital vertical, where she created news videos on the daily. Prior to that, she freelanced for NBC News, Quartz and Hyphen magazine, primarily writing about Asian American identity.

She got her start in the field via radio, through an apprenticeship program at KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, California.

Fiji-born and American-bred, she has a B.S. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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.