ACBJ hires Patel to cover minority business in Houston

Shafaq Patel

American City Business journals, which operates more than 40 business newspapers across the country, has hired Shafaq Patel to cover minority business out of its Houston Business Journal newsroom.

Patel had worked at the ACBJ-owned Boston Business Journal this summer as an intern.

She has also interned at the Boston Globe through the Dow Jones News Fund.

Patel is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston.

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.