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Austin Biz Journal taps Sayers to cover economic development

Justin Sayers

Justin Sayers has joined the Austin Business Journal to cover economic development in the suburbs of one of the country’s fastest-growing metro areas.

Sayers was previously a reporter at the weekly Park Labrea News and Beverly Press newspaper. He was also a local government reporter at Arizona Daily Star.

He has also served as a breaking news reporter, Southern Indiana communities reporter, general assignment reporter, and sports reporter at the Courier Journal.

He has written business and public safety stories as a Pulliam fellow at The Arizona Republic.

He served as a public affairs reporter/data team at Arizona Sonora News Service and as a Dow Jones News Fund sports editing intern at The Hartford Courant.

He has interned at Inside Tucson Business. Sayers is a B.A. in journalism and a M.A. in journalism from the University of Arizona.

Mariam Ahmed

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