Manno joins Times-Union as biz reporter

Melissa Manno

Melissa Manno has joined the Albany Times-Union as a business reporter.

She will cover commercial real estate and retail news.

Manno previously interned at the Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania and at the Council on Foreign Relations.

She is a graduate of Penn State University in 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.