Said, longtime SF Chronicle biz journalist, departs after 27 years

Carolyn Said

Longtime San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said has left the news organization after 27 years.

As a reporter at The Chronicle since 1997, she has also covered the on-demand industry, the foreclosure crisis, the dot-com rise and fall, the California energy crisis and the fallout from economic downturns. She was also the paper’s technology editor from 1997 to 2000.

Before the Chronicle, Said was executive editor of MacWeek.

Said holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.

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.