Canadian Press hires Hudes to cover business

Sammy Hudes

The Canadian Press has hired Sammy Hudes as a business reporter.

He will start later this month.

Hudes has been editor-in-chief of Politics Today, a collection of daily newsletter publications covering Canada’s Parliament and provincial legislatures in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.

He previously worked as a reporter for the Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun and the Toronto Star.

Hudes is a graduate of Carleton 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.