Charlotte Observer growth and development reporter Rago is departing

Gordon Rago

Gordon Rago, who covers growth and development for the Charlotte Observer, is leaving the paper.

He had been at the North Carolina publication since October 2021.

Rago had previously been at The Virginian-Pilot since April 2018. He was City Hall reporter covering Chesapeake, Virginia’s second-largest city by population. He previously worked at the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania for four years.

Rago also worked at the Shoshone News-Press in Idaho as a reporter.

He is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College.

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.