Greater Wilmington Biz Journal reporter Cano is departing

Johanna Cano

Johanna Cano, a reporter for the Greater Wilmington Business Journal, is leaving the North Carolina paper.

She has accepted a communications job with Buncombe County in the western part of the state.

Cano has been at the paper since 2018. Cano wrote general business coverage, social media updates and data research as well as writing feature pieces for its sister publication WILMA magazine.

Cano is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. In college, she worked for The Daily Tar Heel and at the News & Observer’s College Town NC online publication

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.