Springfield daily hires Grant as biz reporter

Claire Grant

The Springfield State Journal-Register in Illionis has hired Claire Grant to be a business reporter.

She will start Jan. 22.

Grant is currently a morning show producer and reporter for KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

She is a graduate of Michigan State University in journalism. While in college, she was copy chief of The State News.

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.