Greenville News hires Casteel from Spartanburg paper

Kathryn Casteel

Spartanburg Herald-Journal growth and development reporter Kathryn Casteel has been hired by the Greenville (S.C.) News to be a watchdog and investigative reporter.

She will start in two weeks.

Casteel has been with the Herald-Journal since July 2021. Casteel had been an investigative reporter at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, since October 2018.

She previously worked at FiveThirtyEight.com and interned at Crain’s New York Business.

Casteel holds a bachelor’s degree from University of South Carolina Upstate and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.