Post and Courier hires Napier as business reporter

Nic Napier

The Charleston Post & Courier has hired Nic Napier as a business reporter to cover the Myrtle Beach area.

He will start in September.

Napier has been a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star for the past year covering politics and business.

He worked at the Indiana Daily Student as news editor and enterprise editor.

Napier holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.

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.