Times-Union hires Mansfield to cover growth and development

Alexandria Mansfield

The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville has hired Alexandria Mansfield to cover growth and development.

Most recently, Mansfield was an associate managing editor for The Villages Daily Sun, where she oversaw a team of reporters. Before that, she covered education and politics for the Daily Sun and served as a copy editor.

And several years ago, she was a community reporter for The Cranberry Eagle in Pennsylvania.

Mansfield holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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.