Axios hires Charlotte Observer real estate reporter

Danielle Chemtob

Axios Charlotte has hired Charlotte Observer growth and economic development reporter Danielle Chemtob to be an investigative reporter.

She has been with the paper since January 2019. She will start at Axios on June 7.

She interned in 2018 at The Wall Street Journal and in 2017 at the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh. She won the student Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business contest for a story she wrote for the Business Journal.

Chemtob, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, was investigations editor for The Daily Tar Heel student newspaper.

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.