Democrat-Gazette hires Fletcher to cover growth and development

Lydia Fletcher

Lydia Fletcher has been hired by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to cover growth and development.

She has been a part-time station manager for KXUA, the student radio station at the University of Arkansas. She was also the music director and a radio show host.

Fletcher recently graduated from the university with a degree in journalism. While in college, she interned at the Tulsa World.

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.