Puget Sound Biz Journal data reporter Merten departs

Paxtyn Merten

Paxtyn Merten, the data reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, has left the news organization.

She had joined the publication in 2019 and had also covered technology, transportation and education in the region as they relate to the local business community.

Merten is a graduate of Northeastern University. While in school, she freelancing for the Boston Business Journal and the Puget Sound Business Journal, where she also interned. She also worked for MuckRock, a nonprofit news organization that works to bring government documents to the public eye, and Open Data Science, a data science blog.

She served as both editor-in-chief and managing editor of The Huntington News, Northeastern’s independent student newspaper.

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.