Jacksonville Biz Journal has La Plante as a reporter

Mauricio La Plante

The Jacksonville Business Journal has hired Mauricio La Plante as a reporter.

He previously was a breaking news reporter for Treasure Coast Newspapers in southeast Florida. And he was a freelance reporter for San Jose Spotlight.

La Plante is a graduate of San Jose State University. While there, he worked as a reporter and editor for the Spartan Daily.

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.