Why Welker of Columbus Dispatch loves business reporting

Jim Welker

Columbus Dispatch business reporter Jim Welker spoke with Doral Chenowith about what he likes about his job.

Here is an excerpt:

Why I became a journalist
What’s not to love? The energy, the front-row seat at the carnival, the steady diet of interesting people doing interesting things, and a job that provides a perfect cocktail of craft and cold facts.
What I like best about my job
Surprising readers — telling them something they don’t know but would want to know … and having readers surprise me with their stories.
A story I have worked on that has had a lasting impact on me
A project I wrote a few years ago with a colleague, John Futty, about people who were being scammed out of money due them in the foreclosure process. I like to think that story made a difference.

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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.