Chicago Tribune hires Jimenez as biz reporter

Abdel Jimenez

Abdel Jimenez has been hired by the Chicago Tribune as a general assignment business reporter.

He starts later this month. Jimenez has been interning for the Tribune this summer.

He previously interned for the Phoenix Business Journal and worked for Cronkite News as an undergraduate at Arizona State University.

Jimenez graduated from ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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.