Birmingham Biz Journal hires Thrailkill to cover health care and tech

Laurel Thrailkill

The Birmingham Business Journal has hired Laurel Thrailkill as its health, tech and innovation reporter.

Managing editor Cara Clark writes, “Thrailkill most recently was a multimedia journalist for the Hattiesburg American and Clarion Ledger in Mississippi. While there she developed stories based on assignments or independently sourced leads through research and investigative work. She began that role in 2020.

“While in Hattiesburg Thrailkill covered revitalization of the city’s downtown, up-and-coming businesses, city projects and issues faced by Hattiesburg and its surrounding communities such as the devastation of the 2020 Easter tornado outbreak.

“Thrailkill gained valuable journalism experience as an intern at the Picayune Item in Picayune, Mississippi, as a staff reporter for USM’s The Student Printz and as an assistant podcast producer for the ‘You Are Not So Smart’ production in Hattiesburg.”

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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.