Chris Roush

[1] Roush was born in Opelika, Alabama and attended high school in suburban Atlanta.

[4] Roush worked as a business journalist for The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Tampa Tribune, BusinessWeek magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bloomberg News and SNL FInancial, where he was editor in chief and launched Insurance Investor magazine, from 1989 to 2002.

[6][7] While he was senior associate dean of the School of Media and Journalism from 2011 to 2015 and director of the master's program from 2007 to 2010.

[10] Roush also wrote books on the history of Hickory-based Alex Lee food business; Progress Energy; and a biography of famed Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

[11] He also oversaw the publication of “Master Class: Teaching Advice for Journalism and Mass Communication Instructors,” a book produced by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication standing committee on teaching.