Boston Biz Journal hires Welker as projects reporter

Grant Welker

The Boston Business Journal has hired Grant Welker as a projects reporter, focused on special projects, data journalism and research-driven publications, reports executive editor Doug Banks.

Banks reports, “Welker joins the Business Journal from the Worcester Business Journal, where he covered the roughly 1-million-resident Worcester County and MetroWest regions’ economic development, health care, retail, real estate, and business trends.

“Prior to his role as news editor at the WBJ, Welker was a city reporter at The Sun in Lowell. In that role, his coverage included more than 70 articles on the six-week boycott and monthslong saga of regional grocery chain Market Basket.

“Welker has also worked as a reporter at the Fall River Herald News and the Hartford Courant.”

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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.