The Information hires Toonkel to cover media and telecom

Jessica Toonkel

The Information managing editor Martin Peers and editor Jessica Lessin sent out the following announcement to the staff:

We’re thrilled to announce that Jessica Toonkel is joining The Information as a media and telecom reporter in New York. Her appointment is part of the expansion of our coverage into the broader media and telecommunications industries.
Jessica is a reporter with deep experience covering both media and the finance world. She has spent the past seven years at Reuters, where she has been the U.S. Media Correspondent since 2016, breaking stories about media consolidation and about moves by Facebook and Amazon into digital media. Before the media beat, Jessica covered M&A and finance.
Before Reuters, she worked for Crain Communications, Institutional Investor and American Lawyer. Jessica graduated from Vassar College. She’ll join us in New York on June 4.
Please welcome Jessica Toonkel!

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.