Thrailkill departs Birmingham Biz Journal for Colorado

Birmingham Business Journal reporter Laurel Thrailkill has left the American City Business Journals publication to become a program content specialist at Colorado Access in Denver.

She joined the Business Journal in May 2022 to cover health, tech and innovation.

Thrailkill previously was a multimedia journalist for the Hattiesburg American and Clarion Ledger in Mississippi. While there she developed stories based on assignments or independently sourced leads through research and investigative work. She began that role in 2020.

She interned at the Picayune Item in Picayune, Mississippi, and worked a staff reporter for University of Southern Mississippi’s The Student Printz.

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.