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Crain’s Detroit hires Fifelski as a reporter

Anna Fifelski

Crain’s Detroit Business has hired Anna Fifelski to cover startups and technology companies in Southeast Michigan as well as banking and finance.

A story on its website states, “Fifelski joins Crain’s following an internship at The Detroit News, where she also received business journalism training through The Dow Jones News Fund. She also interned at Crain’s Detroit Business in 2022. Fifelski is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she served as senior news editor of The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper.

“She has covered a wide array of business topics, including startups and entrepreneurs, which will be important parts of her new beat.

“‘There is so much innovation and excitement happening with startups and other businesses in Southeast Michigan right now,’ Executive Editor Mickey Ciokajlo said. ‘Anna has the curiosity, local knowledge and passion for journalism to find those stories and bring them to our readers. We are thrilled to have her join our team at Crain’s Detroit Business.'”

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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.

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