Wichita Biz Journal’s Mannette departs for another position

Wichita Business Journal reporter Alice Mannette has left the American City Business Journals publication for another position.

She was the aviation, manufacturing and startup reporter. Previously, she served as editor and lead reporter for the Hutchinson News. She has written for newspapers in Kansas, Maine and Virginia.

In addition, she reported for public radio in Florida and Maine. Alice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Florida and a master’s in writing degree from Hamline University. She also taught at the university level and has won national reporting and photojournalism awards, as well as press association awards in Kansas and Virginia.

Mannette served as the regional vice president of North American Agricultural Journalists and was named one of the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Heroes of 2021.

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.