Richmond biz reporter Blackwell resigns

John Blackwell

John Blackwell, a business reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has resigned from the newspaper.

His last day is April 29.

Blackwell has covered manufacturing, agriculture, craft breweries, the tobacco industry, startup businesses, the labor market, economic development and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He has been at the paper for 22 years.

He previously worked for The Danville Register & Bee, the Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector, The Madison (N.C.) Messenger and The Reidsville (N.C.) Review.

He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.

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.