Dallas Morning News hires Martin as biz reporter

Arcelia Martin

Arcelia Martin has been hired by The Dallas Morning News as a business reporter covering North Dallas.

She will start next month.

Martin currently covers housing and real estate for The Tennessean in Nashville. She was raised in San Diego, California, and graduated with her master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor’s from Gonzaga University.

While at Gonzaga, she was editor in chief of the student 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.