Sports Business Journal hires Axon to cover Olympics

Rachel Axon

The Sports Business Journal has hired Rachel Axon as a full-time staff writer to cover the Olympics.

She has been a long-term freelancer for the American City Business Journals publication the past eight months.

Axon previously covered the Olympics for USA Today, where she was also a sports investigative reporter. She also worked at NBC Sports, the Orlando Sentinel and the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina.

She is a graduate of St. Bonaventure 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.