Charlotte Biz Journal banking reporter leaving for Boston fellowship

Hilary Burns

Hilary Burns, the banking, technology and entrepreneurship reporter at the Charlotte Business Journal, is leaving the paper and moving to Boston.

Burns is taking a month-long journalism fellowship in Boston with the GroundTruth Project where she will be reporting on the lack of women in technology leadership roles.

Through GroundTruth’s partnerships with media organizations including WGBH News, NPR, The Atlantic, BostInno and SiliconANGLE, fellows will have the opportunity to publish work with a variety of outlets. All work will also be cultivated on GroundTruth’s website as a multimedia special report.

Burns plans to freelance once the fellowship ends.

She has been at the Charlotte paper in the American City Business Journals chain since May 2015. Before that, she spent 11 months as a reporter for the ACBJ-owned Bizwomen site.

Burns is a Wake Forest University 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.