News & Observer biz reporter Dolder moving to politics

Lars Dolder

The (Raleigh) News & Observer business reporter Lars Dolder is moving to political coverage to be editor of its The Insider.

He has been covering retail and main street businesses and helping out with other stories on business desk.

Dolder was previously at the Chatham (N.C.) News & Record for the past year as a staff reporter specializing in state and municipal governments, police and feature writing. He also has been writing a weekly business column, “Enterprising Chatham.”

Dolder previously was a ghostwriter of finance books for financial executives. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University in mathematics.

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.