The Messenger hires Bachman to cover airlines

Justin Bachman

News startup The Messenger has hired Justin Bachman to cover airlines.

He previously was an aviation and aerospace reporter based in Dallas at Bloomberg News and Businessweek.

Bachman covered airlines, general aviation, NASA, the commercial space industry, defense, and commercial drones. He was also deputy news director at Businessweek.com.

Previously, he was a supervisory editor for the Associated Press in the business news department in New York for four years, and was a financial reporter in the AP’s Atlanta bureau from 1998 through 2002.

He has also worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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.