Chris Roush's new role

Chris Roush, associate professor, Director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, prolific writer and BusinessJournalism.org contributor, will become the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in business journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chris’s new role is effective January 1, 2008.

In a memo, Dean Jean Folkerts said Chris’s “national reputation has been thoroughly established and I look forward to his continuing contributions to students, to the growth of programs within the School, and to our national reputation.”

Congratulations Chris!