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Sports Biz Journal hires Mejia-Hilario as reporter

Irving Mejia-Hilario

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.

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.

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