Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz media talk out of both sides of mouth with Lowe’s, Home Depot

TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs takes on the business journalists who used lower earnings from hardware store chain Lowe’s as evidence of a slowing economy, but then found other reasons as to why rival Home Depot beat expectations.

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.