Baton Rouge Biz Report’s Jacobs hired by State Affairs

David Jacobs

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report reporter David Jacobs has been hired by State Affairs as its senior statehouse reporter in Louisiana.

He will be based in Baton Rouge.

Jacobs has been with the Business Report since August 2021.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree from Syracuse 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.