Brown promoted to senior reporter at Phoenix Biz Journal

Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown has been promoted to senior reporter at the Phoenix Business Journal.

Brown, who covers multiple beats from sports business to retail/restaurants and hospitality, has nearly a decade’s worth of experience in the Business Journal newsroom.

His coverage has been recognized and awarded several times by the Arizona Newspaper Association and the Arizona Press Club.

Brown earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

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.