Albuquerque Biz First hires new reporter

Sal Christ has been hired as the health care, finance and law reporter at Albuquerque Business First, an American City Business Journals paper.

Christ writes, “Exported from Denver, I’ve worked in the media for eight years and began working as a journalist in 2010, covering everything from arts and culture to politics and finance around the Colorado region. More specifically, I wrote about the local and national music scene in Denver. While interviewing musicians and reviewing live shows is wildly entertaining at times — though not entirely in a Lester Bangs manner — I’ve found business journalism offers much more to chew on.

“Prior to joining Albuquerque Business First, I worked with the Denver Business Journal — primarily writing executive profiles, but also digging around in the professional services and nonprofit sector. Some of the most rewarding experiences at the DBJ revolved around getting to know the people setting the limits of their industries and stepping beyond them. Whether it was the serial entrepreneur who fled Sri Lanka as a child or the accountant whose layoff from a Big Four firm led him to start his own business or the attorneys explaining patent law and the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank case to me, I’ve enjoyed it all.”

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