Chicago Tribune biz reporter Bomkamp joins PR firm

Samantha Bomkamp

Samantha Bomkamp, a business reporter for the Chicago Tribune, has joined Golin, the public relations and marketing communications firm, as a director of integrated media, working on the McDonald’s account, reports Robert Feder.

Feder writes, “At the Tribune, Bomkamp covered the restaurant industry as well as the rise of #MeToo and sexual harassment in the workplace. She also served as a digital editor and producer. Before joining the Tribune in 2013, she worked in New York as a travel industry reporter for The Associated Press.

“‘It was a very difficult decision to leave the Tribune but I feel like I’ve made the best move for me,’ Bomkamp said.”

Bomkamp holds a degree in psychology from Ohio State University. She also worked at newspapers in Maine and Iowa. At the AP, she was part of a four-person national reporting team covering the aviation and travel industries. She was the sole national reporter covering hotels, online travel agencies and rental car companies.

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.