Ottawa Biz Journal hires Galko as a reporter

Marissa Galko

The Ottawa Business Journal has hired Marissa Galko as a reporter.

Galko recently graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and humanities.

She has freelanced with publications such as Capital Current, The Charlatan, and Apartment613, and completed an internship at the National Post Parliamentary Bureau.

She also worked as a junior communications officer with the Competition Bureau Canada for about two years,

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.