Michigan paper hires Ware as business reporter

Tess Ware

The Petoskey News-Review in Michigan has hired Tess Ware as a business reporter.

Steve Foley of The News-Review writes, “Ware, 23, is a recent Central Michigan University graduate who earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

“She served as the summer editor of Central Michigan Life most recently while at CMU and served as a reporter with the student newspaper where she worked as a features reporter, covering the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Education and Human Services and the College of Science and Engineering. Ware also covered the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and clinics during her tenure at CM Life.

“She will be a business reporter and also cover environment in her new position at the Petoskey News-Review.”

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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.