Senior reporter Perez departs Front Office Sports

A.J. Perez

Senior reporter A.J. Perez is leaving sports business site Front Office Sports after nearly five years.

“FOS allowed me to chase subjects I felt needed attention and supported those pursuits,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “It makes leaving tough.”

Perez previously was an investigative reporter for USA Today sports and a sports reporter for NJ.com. He also worked for Fox Sports and CBS Sports.

He is a graduate of San Jose State 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.