Mountain State Spotlight hires Lockhart to cover economic development

P.R. Lockhart

The Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia has hired P.R. Lockhart to cover economic development.

She will start Oct. 25.

Lockhart has spent the past two years as a freelance journalist reporting on communities of color for various outlets, including NBC News and The Guardian.

She has lived around the county but called Virginia home for more than a decade. Prior to freelancing, Lockhart worked as a reporter covering race and politics for Vox and as a Ben Bagdikian Editorial Fellow at Mother Jones.

Her interest in reporting on marginalized communities was born at Duke University where she studied psychology.

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.