BizTimes Milwaukee hires Poirier as a reporter

Joe Poirier

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

A story on its website states, “Poirier was previously a business reporter for the Ozaukee Press in Ozaukee County. Prior to that he was a reporter, editor and photographer for the Milwaukee Catholic Herald.

“Poirier is a 2012 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a double major in journalism and English.”

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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.