CNNMoney names sports biz reporter

Ahiza Garcia, who has been with CNNMoney.com for the past year, is moving to the sports business beat.

Garcia, who has been a general assignment reporter, will remain part of the news team and help turn CNNMoney’s longtime commitment to sports business coverage into a mini-vertical.

She has a master’s degree in broadcast and digital journalism, with a sports communication emphasis, from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia University.

Garcia previously spent a year working for Talking Points Memo. She freelanced for ESPN The Magazine.

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.