Rinker to cover business for New Hampshire paper

James Rinker

James Rinker has been tapped to cover education and business for the Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire.

He has been with the newspaper for three years and previously was a digital community engagement journalist. His work has focused on health care access in rural communities. He has additional reporting experience covering the environment.

Rinker is a graduate of Keene State College. While there, he was general manager of the student radio station, WKNH.

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.