Louisville Biz First hires Schmidt to cover tech, bourbon and finance

Stephen Schmidt

Louisville Business First has hired Stephen Schmidt to cover the technology, bourbon and finance/banking beats.

Schmidt has been a freelance writer in Louisville for the past two years. He previously was a writer for St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

He also worked as a science writer at the University of Missouri, a multimedia specialist at Arvest Bank and an interactive web producer for WABC-TV in New York. He was also a reporter for the Northwest Arkansas Times.

Schmidt holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree from Quinnipiac University.

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.