BizTimes Milwaukee hires Dietel as a reporter

Samantha Dietel

Samantha Dietel has joined BizTimes Milwaukee as a reporter to cover the health care, education and nonprofit beats.

A story on its website states, “Dietel is a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, with a degree in journalism.

“During her time as a student at Mizzou, Dietel worked as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian covering education and state government, producing weekly legislative coverage at the state capital in Jefferson City. During the fall of 2023 she served as a reporting intern for the States Newsroom in Washington D.C. covering the federal government.

“Dietel has won multiple journalism awards from the Northeastern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.”

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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.