Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal banking reporter Rehkamp is departing

Patrick Rehkamp

Patrick Rehkamp, who covers banking and finance for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, is leaving the publication next week.

Rehkamp has accepted a job as a senior financial writer for Old National Bank.

He has been with the American City Business Journals paper since December 2015, first as a data reporter. Rehkamp also worked at the Better Government Association as an investigative reporter and at the Chicago Sun-Times as an editorial assistant and reporter.

He is a graduate of Loyola University in Chicago and also holds an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

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.