Spice hires to cover restaurants and retail for Milwaukee Biz Journal

Linda Spice

The Milwaukee Business Journal has hired Linda Spice to cover restaurants and retail.

She will start on Monday.

Spice has been a digital communication specialist at Alverno College for the past two years. She spent 15 years at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covering suburban government, K-12 schools, higher education, county government, police and fire, and breaking news.

Spice has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Carroll University, where she has been teaching as an adjunct.

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.