Campbell, Puget Sound Biz Journal reporter, leaving to freelance

Megan Campbell

Megan Campbell, a retail and health care reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal, is leaving the paper to freelance.

She has been at the paper since June 2019. Her last day is Wednesday.

Campbell covered retail businesses such as Nordstrom, Costco, Amazon and Starbucks and regional health care organizations such as Providence and UW Medicine. She also wrote COVID-19 stories.

She previously spent more than four years working for the Sound Publishing papers — Kirkland Reporter, Bothell/Kenmore Reporter, Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter, and Bellevue Reporter — as a reporter and copy editor.

Campbell is a graduate of Oregon State University.

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.