Puget Sound Biz Journal has Basnet as a data reporter

Neetish Basnet

The Puget Sound Business Journal has hired Neetish Basnet as a data reporter.

Basnet writes, “At the Business Journal, I aim to tell stories behind and through the numbers. When reporting digits is simply not enough, I’ll provide the context and decipher its qualitative value to people and communities. I am also taking on the responsibility of collecting data, curating Lists and organizing the Business Journal’s growing database.

“The Puget Sound region is new to me, but I am aware of the journalistic and civic mission of the Business Journals.

“My first ‘big boy’ job after completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Texas a few years ago was at our sister paper, the Dallas Business Journal, where I wrote about topics ranging from the slow-but-steadily adapting big-box retailers to the encroachment of city streets by electric scooters.”

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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.