Casino industry reporter Danzis leaving Press of Atlantic City

David Danzis

David Danzis, who has covered the casino industry for The Press of Atlantic City, is leaving the paper on Friday.

He will start Monday at Play NJ, covering casino and gambling news.

“I am excited for a new chapter but saddened to be closing another,” he wrote on Twitter.

Danzis joined The Press in early 2018. He formerly worked as a politics and government reporter for the New Jersey Herald and received the First Amendment: Art Weissman Memorial NJPA Award two years in a row.

He’s a graduate of Rutgers 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.