Chattanooga paper hires Sessoms to cover growth and development

Ben Sessoms

The Chattanooga Times Free Press has hired Ben Sessoms to cover growth and development, as well as transportation and the environment.

He has been a government accountability reporter for CityView Magazine in Fayetteville, North Carolina and previously worked at Carolina Public Press covering local government in eastern North Carolina.

Sessoms also covered housing for The (Raleigh) News & Observer and education for the Statesville Record & Landmark.

He is a graduate of Appalachian State 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.