Duggan hired by Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal

JD Duggan

J.D. Duggan

J.D. Duggan joined the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal last week to cover manufacturing, technology, startups and health care.

He most recently worked at Finance & Commerce covering economic development, which was a wide-ranging beat that included housing, real estate transactions and some local housing-related political coverage.

Duggan worked for some now-defunct media startups and interned for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press.

He is a University of Minnesota graduate.

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.