Sportico hires Clinkscales for breaking news team

Jason Clinkscales

Sports business site Sportico has hired Jason Clinkscales to be a reporter and editor on its breaking news team.

He has been a freelance writer for the last two years.

Clinkscales previously spent a decade at The Sports Fan Journal, including more than two years as its editor in chief. He was also a senior reports editor at Insider Intelligence.

He is a graduate of Babson College.

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.