Chris Roush

Chris Roush is an American journalism professor and author in the United States. He was dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, from 2019 to 2023.

Early life Roush was born in Opelika, Alabama and attended high school in suburban Atlanta. He graduated from Auburn University in 1987 and received his master's degree from the University of Florida in 1990. His father was historian Gerald Roush.

Career 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.

He taught business journalism at Washington & Lee University in 2001-01 and the University of Richmond in 2001-02.

At UNC-Chapel Hill, he was the Walter E. Hussman, Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at University of North Carolina. 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.

He won the 2009 Charles E. Scripps Award for Journalism Education, a national teacher of the year honor given by the Scripps Howard Foundation in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has written ten books, most recently The Future of Business Journalism: Why It Matters for Wall Street and Main Street. 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.

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.