NBC Digital hires Miami Herald’s Wile to cover business

Rob Wile

Miami Herald business reporter Rob Wile has been hired by NBC Digital to cover business news.

He will remain based in Miami.

Wile has been at the Herald for the past four years covering business, tech, and the economy in South Florida. In 2020, he won a SABEW Best in Business award for real estate coverage titled “Priced out of Paradise.”

He previously worked for Business Insider, Fusion Media Network, The New Tropic and Money magazine.

He is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and Columbia University.

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.