Silicon Valley Biz Journal hires new tech writer

Jennifer Elias, a freelance writer who has written for multiple publications, has been hired by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as a technology reporter.

In the past three years, her reporting has appeared in places like Silicon Valley Business Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes and Fast Company. Before tech journalism, she briefly wrote about fashion, interviewing personalities from Los Angeles to New York Fashion Week.

She also spent a year as the community manager for the Blackhawk Network, a giftcard company, and as a digital intern for NBC Universal.

Elias is a 2012 graduate of San Jose State 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.