Toronto Star hires Godfrey as biz reporter

Hayden Godfrey

The Toronto Star has hired Hayden Godfrey as a business reporter.

Godfrey has been a research reporting fellow who reports and researches stories across the investigative, politics, and data teams at The Washington Post.

He is also a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit investigative newsroom based at American University. A native of Toronto, he previously reported on arts and culture for The Star and The National Post. He joined The Post in 2022.

Godfrey holds a bachelor’s degree from Toronto Metropolitan University and a master’s degree from American 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.