Boston Biz Journal, Bostinno hire Mintz as a reporter

Sam Mintz

Tech and innovation news site BostInno and the Boston Business Journal has hired Sam Mintz as a reporter.

A BostInno story states, “Mintz, a native of Greater Boston, joins Inno from Politico, where he has been a transportation reporter and author of the enewsletter Morning Transportation. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he studied political science and journalism. Prior to Politico, he worked at E&E News, where he covered energy policy at federal agencies and in Congress.

“Before his time in Washington, D.C., Mintz was at the Cape Cod Times, where he reported on local government, politics and crime.

“Part of the American Inno network of sites, BostInno covers innovation, entrepreneurship, startups and startup finance — along with the people driving innovation across Greater Boston.”

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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.