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Charlotte Observer biz reporter Peralta leaves for Charlotte Agenda

Katherine Peralta

Katherine Peralta, a business reporter for the Charlotte Observer, has left the paper for a job at the Charlotte Agenda.

She will start at the Agenda on July 29.

Peralta had been with the Observer since January 2015, covering retail and also working as an early-morning online reporter.

On the retail beat, she covered the Fortune 500 retailers based in the Charlotte area, including Lowe’s Home Improvement and Family Dollar, as well as covering shopping trends and taking over the Observer’s highly popular retail blog.

Peralta, who has family in Charlotte, has a master’s from the Medill School at Northwestern University.

The Agenda, which started in 2015, covers careers, things to do, real estate, travel, startups, food+drink, philanthropy, development and children.

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.

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