Orlando Sentinel reporter Garcia departing

Joseph Garcia, who has been writing about the intersection between business and politics, is leaving the paper and starting a newsletter.

His newsletter will be called “Seeking Rents,” and will involve digging even deeper into things like corporate taxes and public corruption in Florida.

Garcia previously covered Walt Disney Co., Universal Parks & Resorts and SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., and state government for the Sentinel. In 2020, he won a National Headliner Award for “Big Profits, Tiny Taxes,” a six-part series examining how multinational corporations avoid Florida taxes.

Garcia also worked five years for Florida Trend magazine.

He is a University of Maryland graduate.

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.