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SF Chronicle Hires Roy as Personal Finance Columnist
Jessica Roy
Jessica Roy is joining the San Francisco Chronicle as a personal finance and public services columnist.
Roy will write about building and managing wealth for readers at various life stages and income levels. She will cover the California tax code, the insurance crisis, real estate, budgeting, gas versus electricity, grocery bills, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bills, and more.
Roy comes to the Chronicle after nine years at the Los Angeles Times, where her byline appeared in every section of the paper. She has worked on the audience engagement team, the utility journalism team and, most recently, as editor of West Coast Experiences. Her work has included a newsletter course on how to make and stick to a budgetan investigation into California failed plastic bag banand a series about having your identity stolen.
She graduated from UCLA.
Chris Roush
Chris Roush is the former dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Previously, he was the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor of 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.