Austin Biz Journal hires Hemmersmeier to cover economic development

Sean Hemmersmeier

The Austin Business Journal has hired Sean Hemmersmeier to cover economic development.

He has been a business reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Before moving to Las Vegas, Hemmersmeier covered government and development news in Southern Utah for The Spectrum & Daily News.

He is a native of Salt Lake City and graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2021 with a degree in multimedia journalism.

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.