Biz reporter Hamway leaving Albuquerque Journal

Stephen Hamway

Albuquerque Journal business reporter Stephen Hamway is leaving the paper for a job with a state government agency.

In March, he is joining the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

He has been with the Journal since May 2019, covering retail and tourism, as well as real estate in Albuquerque and the surrounding communities.

He had been at the Bend Bulletin in Oregon for four years. For two years, he was covering Deschutes County and Central Oregon’s public lands for The Bulletin. Before that, he spent two years as a business reporter for the Bulletin.

Hamway is a master’s graduate of the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. His undergrad degree is from the University of Puget Sound.

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.