Corpus Christi biz reporter Cargo among Gannett layoffs

Kathryn Cargo

Kathryn Cargo, a business reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, was among the Gannett layoffs on Friday.

Cargo had been at the paper since March 2019 and also covered city government.

She previously was a business and agriculture news reporter at the Victoria Advocate, which is also in Texas.

Cargo holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from Texas A&M Kingsville.

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.