The Messenger hires Cooley to cover ag and commodities

Patrick Cooley

News startup The Messenger has hired Patrick Cooley to cover agriculture and commodities.

Cooley has been freelancing for Industry Dive, but he was a business reporter for The Columbus Dispatch for more than four years covering agriculture, the environment and transportation.

He also worked for Cleveland,com as a life and culture reporter and as a crime reporter.

Cooley holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State 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.