Boston Biz Journal hires Hall as a reporter

William Hall

The Boston Business Journal has hired William Hall as a reporter, covering banking and finance, professional services such as law and accounting, and publicly traded companies.

Hall has been managing editor of digital operations at MaineBiz and business editor at the Portland Press Herald in Maine.

He also worked in public relations at Porter Novelli and MSLGroup.

Hall is a graduate of Princeton University.

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.