Crain’s Detroit reporter Arshad is departing

Minnah Arshad

Minnah Arshad a Crain’s Detroit Business general assignment reporter, is leaving the publication.

“Looking to pursue my passion in data reporting and will spend some time building data skills while freelancing on the side,” she wrote on Twitter.

Previously, she was a breaking news intern reporter at The Detroit Free Press. She was a contributing writer to The South End, Wayne State University’s student paper and Atlanta Muslim, an online community for Atlanta Muslims focused on news, events and articles.

Arshad is a graduate of Wayne 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.