Business North Carolina hires Campbell as a reporter

Colin Campbell

Business North Carolina has hired Colin Campbell to cover the intersection of business and politics.

He previously was the editor of the NC Insider newsletter. His last day there will be Aug. 20.

Campbell has been NC Insider’s editor since June 12017, and he has focused on increasing the original reporting in the newsletter.

He first wrote for The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s publications in 2008 when he freelanced for the Chapel Hill News. He also spent three years covering Johnston County for the Smithfield Herald. At the News & Observer, he wrote for the North Raleigh News and covered the Raleigh City Council before joining its state politics team in 2014.

Campbell 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.