Atlanta Biz Chronicle hires new restaurant/airport reporter

Alex Gailey

Alexandra Gailey has been hired by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as its restaurants and airports reporter.

She will start later this month.

Gailey spent the summer interning on the business news desk of the Boston Globe, where she wrote two front-page stories.

She interned last summer at the Charlotte Business Journal, a sister paper to the Business Chronicle, and freelanced for the paper during the past year as well.

She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate. During school, she worked at The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper. She was the paper’s digital editor during the summer of 2016.

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.