Tennessean hires Hitson for business news desk

Hadley Hitson

The Tennessean has hired Hadley Hitson as a business reporter covering health care and dining.

Hitson was previously at the Montgomery Advertiser where she was named 2024 emerging journalist for Alabama by the Alabama Press Association.

She has been covering Alabama’s Black Belt communities — their access to health care, education, technology and other stories.

Hitson also worked as a freelance education reporter for Fortune magazine while the media outlet launched its first annual list of the Best Online MBA Programs.

She is a University of Mississippi 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.