Jacksonville Biz Journal reporter Brown departs

Will Brown

Will Brown, a reporter at the Jacksonville Business Journal in Florida, is leaving after 18 months.

He had been covering transportation, logistics, financial services and sports business in Jacksonville and Northeast Florida.

Brown previously was a reporter for the St. Augustine Record covering topical issues and sports. He was also a reporter for the Victoria Advocate newspaper in Texas. He previously was a business reporter and then a sports reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat.

Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M University and a master’s degree from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg.

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.