Charlottesville daily hires new biz reporter/editor

Melissa Castro

Melissa Castro has been hired by the Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress as its business reporter/editor.

A story on its website states, “Castro, 46, earned a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, as well as a law degree from Georgetown University. She has worked as a commercial litigator with Washington law firms and as a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey, the Washington Business Journal and The Durango Herald in Colorado.

“Castro’s business coverage will focus on enterprise stories that are unique to college town economies, including university and venture-funded startups; entrepreneurship in tech, health care and the creative economy; and media and financial services.”

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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.