Indianapolis Star hires Guffey as a business reporter

Alysa Guffey

The Indianapolis Star has hired Alysa Guffey as a business reporter.

She will cover retail growth and development.

Guffey has been a reporter on the emerging news desk at the Chicago Tribune, where she also covered education.

A recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she has worked at the Boston Globe, the South Bend Tribune and as editor-in-chief of The Observer, Notre Dame’s 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.