Crain’s Cleveland reporter Jarboe departs

Michelle Jarboe

Michelle Jarboe, an enterprise reporter at Crain’s Cleveland Business, is leaving after three and a half years for another opportunity.

She started in May 2020. Jarboe is a former president of the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Jarboe was previously at the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a commercial real estate reporter for 12 years. Jarboe covered commercial real estate, development and the housing market for Ohio’s largest daily newspaper.

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.