Portland Press Herald hires Singer as biz reporter

The Portland Press Herald in Maine has hired Stephen Singer to be a business reporter.

He most recently was at Industry Dive as an editor for its Utility Dive publication.

He previously had been at the Hartford Courant and had covered manufacturing, high tech and other business beats.

Singer previously spent more than 17 years at the Associated Press in Charleston, West Virginia, and in Hartford. He was also a state capitol reporter for The Daily Mail in Charleston.

Singer holds a bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland.

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.