Star Tribune hires Carlson as team leader in business

Joe Carlson has returned to the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a team leader in the business news department.

He is managing a team of reporters and columnist Evan Ramstad.

Carlson worked as a senior researcher with Blue Heron Research Partners, doing qualitative due diligence work on companies in health care and other fields.

He previously covered Minnesota’s medical technology industry for Star Tribune. He’s a three-time winner of the National Institute of Health Care Management’s trade journalism award, and he won best business story in Minnesota from the state chapter of Society of Professional Journalists in three of the seven years he covered med-tech at the Star Tribune.

Carlson also worked at Modern Healthcare and is a University of Minnesota graduate.

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.