Tri-Cities Area Biz Journal hires Beaver as a reporter

Ty Beaver

Ty Beaver has been hired by the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business in Kennewick, Washington, as a reporter.

He has more than 10 years experience as a journalist, with nearly five years at the Tri-City Herald, a daily newspaper in Kennewick, and nearly six years at the Herald & News in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

He also worked for two years at the Kennewick School District handling their social media before joining the Richland School District heading its communications department.

He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English from the University of Kansas.

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.