Biz reporter Barber departs Washington state paper

Caleb Barber

Caleb Barber, the housing and business reporter of the Longview Daily News in Washington, is leaving the paper.

Barber has been covering housing availability, zoning, urban planning, economic development, homelessness, local industry and small business.

He previously was the state government correspondent for the Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota.

Barber holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.

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.