The Sports Business Journal has hired Irving Mejia-Hilario as a general assignment reporter.
He will start Sept. 9 and will be based in Dallas.
He previously was at the Dallas Morning News as a breaking business news reporter.
Mejia-Hilario joined the Morning News after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was managing editor of The South End, and following a business reporting internship at Automotive News and an environmental reporting internship at Bridge Michigan.
His background also includes sports reporting at Spark Sports, Fox Sports, Last Word On Sports and Top Sports Report. At age 17, he was featured on Fox Sports – one of the youngest writers ever to accomplish that.
