Albuquerque Biz First hires March as a reporter

Leah March

The Albuquerque Business First has hired Leah March as a reporter.

March will expand the publication’s coverage across New Mexico, with a focus on Santa Fe and Las Cruces.

A graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, March earned a bachelor’s degree in history of mathematics, natural sciences and philosophy.

She also attended the London School of Economics, completing a course on global wealth and poverty distribution, and was a Fulbright Grantee, teaching English literacy in the Czech Republic.

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.