Buffalo News hires Harris as business reporter

Jon Harris

The Buffalo News has hired Jon Harris as a business reporter.

He has been an enterprise reporter at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which he joined in May 2015.

“My time here made me a better journalist and paved the way for my next opportunity,” he wrote on Twitter.

He previously spent two years at the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, New York, covering upstate New York’s casino expansion, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.

Harris, a western New York native, graduated from Syracuse University in May 2013.

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.