Biz reporter leaves Savannah daily

Julia Ritchey, a business reporter at the Savannah Morning News, has left the paper.

Ritchey had been with the paper since November 2013 and was covering real estate, banking, labor, tourism, retail and development in and around Savannah.

Before Savannah, Ritchey was assistant editor and arts and entertainment editor for Mountain Xpress in Asheville, N.C. She also spent seven months as a freelance journalist in Senegal, reporting on politics, culture, the environment and human rights in Anglophone and Francophone West Africa for radio outlets and publications such as the Voice of America and The Daily Beast.

Ritchey also worked full time at Voice of America from September 2008 to October 2010.

She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

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.