dotLA hires Hetrick to cover entertainment tech and startups

Christian Hetrick

Tech news site dotLA has hired Christian Hetrick to cover entertainment technology and startups.

He will start on Monday.

Hetrick has been a business reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer since July 2018, covering consumer issues, Comcast, and how Philadelphia could emerge from decades of struggle and adapt to a changing economy through its Future of Work project.

He previously was a statehouse reporter for The Observer in Trenton, New Jersey and a city hall reporter for the Press of Atlantic City.

He is a graduate of Rowan University, where he was editor 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.