Memphis Biz Journal hires Guzman as a reporter

Wendy Guzman

The Memphis Business Journal has hired Wendy Guzman to cover tourism, hospitality and the airport.

She started this week.

Guzman was a reporting intern and part of the summer 2023 newsroom intern class at The Wall Street Journal.

She a recent graduate of Michigan State University, where she studied journalism, public relations and graphic design. She previously interned at Automotive News and at Forbes, where she worked on the annual Top Colleges list.

She wrote for MSU’s student newspaper, the State News, and was campus news editor in her junior year.

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.