Time hires The Atlantic’s Semuels as senior economics correspondent

Alana Semuels

Time magazine has hired The Atlantic’s Alana Semuels as its senior economics correspondent.

She will start on April 29.

Semuels has been with The Atlantic since October 2014. She has been reporting stories in different regions of the country illustrating the challenges facing workers, cities, and companies in today’s economy. Her specialties include the working class, the rural/urban divide, and the social safety net.

Semuels received 2017 Abe Fellowship for Journalists to report on economics topics in Japan and Sweden, and she was a finalist for the 2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for series about who is being left behind in America.

She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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.