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Youngstown Biz Journal hires Schaffer to cover tech news

Lily Schaffer

Lily Schaffer has been hired by the Youngstown Business Journal to cover technology-related news.

A story on its website states, “The newest reporter at The Business Journal is primarily covering technology-related business news. Her passions also include reporting news pertinent to small businesses, women- and minority-owned businesses, and features on women and minority business leaders.

“Schaffer is a 2020 graduate of Kent State University. Her experiences include copy editing, page layout/design and photography. “Photojournalism was my concentration at Kent,” she says.

“Schaffer’s mother, Melissa Raines, was a reporter at the Mount Vernon News in Knox County, where they lived.”

Read more here.

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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