Crain’s Detroit hires Eggert to cover politics and policy

David Eggert

Crain’s Detroit Business has hired David Eggert to cover politics and policy from Lansing.

Eggert has been with the Associated Press as a reporter in Lansing since December 2012. He previously was a state government and politics reporter for MLive.com.

Eggert also worked for the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio as a public affairs reporter and at the Lansing State Journal as an assistant news and information reporter.

He also worked at the AP in Lansing from May 2004 to November 2009.

Eggert holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Northwestern 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.