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Daily Herald biz editor Schwarz moves to sports

Orrin Schwarz

Orrin Schwarz, the suburban business editor for The Daily Herald in Illinois, has become its sports editor.

The Daily Herald covers Chicago suburbs.

Schwarz joined the Daily Herald in 1999. He previously has coordinated the Daily Herald’s boys and girls soccer Top 20s.

Schwarz also serves as the Daily Herald’s beat writer covering professional soccer, including the Chicago Fire, the Chicago Red Stars and the United States national teams. He is a member of the North American Soccer Reporters organization and votes each week for the Major League Soccer Player of the Week award. He’s also a voter for MLS Player of the Month, as well as postseason awards. Schwarz writes a weekly pro soccer column.

Prior to joining the Daily Herald, Schwarz worked at The Times of Northwest Indiana as a copy editor and assistant sports editor, and he was a freelance sports writer for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Schwarz graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major of English and history. He also has a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in American history.

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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