Denver Biz Journal’s Wentling departs for Military Times

Nikki Wentling

Denver Business Journal tech reporter Nikki Wentling has left to work at Military Times covering disinformation and extremism.

Wentling has previously been a national reporter with Stars and Stripes, a U.S. military news outlet. During her six years at Stars and Stripes, Wentling covered breaking news and the inner workings of the Department of Defense and the United States Department of Veteran Affairs.

Wentling also led several investigations at Stars and Stripes, including a deep dive into VA restrictions on benefits to Native American servicemembers and an ongoing supply shortage at the VA hospital in Washington, D.C.

At the Denver Business Journal, she had been covering technology, innovation and biotechnology. She also produced Colorado Inno’s newsletter The Beat.

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.