South Dakota biz reporter moves to rapid response team

Trent Abrego, a business reporter for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, has moved to the rapid response team as a reporter.

Shelly Conlon of the Argus Leader writes, “As of the new year, he now takes on the role of our rapid response reporter, handling everything from breaking news and criminal justice trends in our city, to explaining why the sky is a strange color the next time a derecho hits, to insightful community features or that weird thing that made South Dakota go viral.”

Abrego has been with the paper since July 2022. He previously was with the Aberdeen American News.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from South Dakota 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.