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USA Today biz reporter Harris departing via buyout

Craig Harris

Craig Harris, an investigative business reporter for USA Today, has taken the company’s buyout offer and will depart on Dec. 1.

He’s been a journalist for 31 years, and he’s worked at seven daily newspapers. In 2012 and 2014, Harris was one of the lead writers when The Arizona Republic was a finalist in breaking news coverage for the Pulitzer Prize.

In 2011 and 2012, Harris won the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting presented by Syracuse University and first place in the Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for work on Arizona’s pension systems. In 2015, he was part of a team that won the Scripps Howard investigative award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal.

In 2017 and 2019, Harris won George Polk Awards for his reporting on state employees being wrongly fired and charter schools, respectively. He’s a three-time Arizona Reporter of the Year.

Harris is a 1989 graduate of the University of Oregon, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and remains a diehard Ducks fan. In December 2021, he earned a Master’s in Business Journalism degree from Arizona 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.

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