Columbus Biz First reporter Milnes departs

Owen Milnes

Owen Milnes, a Columbus Business First reporter covering commercial real estate in Franklin County, is leaving the news organization after a year.

Previously, he was a teaching assistant at The Ohio State University. He was also campus producer at The Lantern. In this role, he managed all video and some written content for the Campus News desk of Ohio State’s independent student news outlet.

He has also served as a campus general/feature/localization reporter at the paper.

Milnes also interned at Sports and Society Initiative and Ohio State National Broadcast. Milnes is a B.A. in journalism from Ohio 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.