BizTimes Milwaukee reporter Hess leaving for WPR

Corri Hess

Corri Hess, a reporter for BizTimes Milwaukee, is leaving the publication to work for WPR, the public radio station in Wisconsin.

Hess will become its Milwaukee reporter on Nov. 5.

At Biz Times, she covered commercial real estate, tourism and retail.

Hess joined BizTimes in 2015. She has been a reporter since 2001, working at several daily newspapers, the Milwaukee Business Journal and freelancing for area publications.

Hess is a four-time Milwaukee Press Club award winner and a two-time Wisconsin Newspaper Association Award winner.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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.