Horton hired as biz reporter for Indiana Public Broadcasting

Samantha Horton

Samantha Horton has been hired as a business reporter for Indiana Public Broadcasting.

She started on Monday.

Horton previously worked for WNIN Tri-State Public Media in Evansville, Indiana, where she was a local government and breaking news reporter.

In January 2016, Horton’s coverage of the Dubois County avian flu outbreak came despite a winter storm and a two-hour drive to the scene of the outbreak. She also filed the story for NPR as well as Indiana Public Broadcasting stations.

During the summer of 2016, Horton led WNIN’s shift to video as our primary news gathering tool, developing procedures and processes that put WNIN on the forefront of radio news departments in Indiana.

She also developed a few shows based off of “The Demographics of Wealth Report” published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In the shows, Horton examined how these reports related to the Evansville area.

Horton is a University of Evansville graduate.

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.