Phoenix Biz Journal hires Mensik to cover commercial real estate

Hailey Mensik

The Phoenix Business Journal has hired Hailey Mensik to cover commercial real estate and economic development.

Mensik has been working for Worklife, a Digiday publication covering the future of work.

She also worked as an associate editor at Healthcare Dive, an Industry Dive publication.

Mensik is a graduate of Arizona State University. She interned on the business news desk at the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

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.