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O’Bryon on business journalism and media convergence

Linda O’Bryon, chief executive officer of South Carolina ETV, delivers the keynote address at the 11th Annual Convergence and Society Conference, “Advancing Business Journalism and Convergence.”

O’Bryon, a founding producer of PBS’ “Nightly Business Report,” described her views about the convergence of video, web and print for business news reporting. She spoke on Sept. 28, 2012, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

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.