BizTimes Milwaukee hires Byron as a reporter

Lelah Byron

Lelah Byron has joined BizTimes Milwaukee as a reporter whose beat responsibilities will include health care, insurance, nonprofits and education.

A story on its website states, “A Chicago-area native, Byron graduated from Marquette University earlier this year. At Marquette she worked for the Marquette Wire as an investigative reporter and executive projects editor. Also at Marquette, she had an internship with the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, working on stories for national publications and collaborating with the former education editor of the Boston Globe to help with a report on racial gaps in literacy across the nation.

“Byron also interned with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Minneapolis-based Greenspring Media.”

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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.