Industry Dive publication Fashion Dive has hired Laurel Deppen as a reporter.
She has been covering health care and education, as well as southern Indiana economic development, for Louisville Business First, an American City Business Journals publication.
Deppen has also been a Dow Jones News Fund intern working at tech news site Geekwire. She also interned at the Charlotte Observer and the Courier-Journal in Louisville.
She is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, the College Heights Herald.