Colorado biz reporter leaving for marketing job

Katarina Velazquez

Katarina Velazquez, a business reporter at the Greeley Tribune, is leaving the paper at the end of the week.

Velazquez has accepted a marketing position with MadWire, a digital marketing company, in Fort Collins.

She has been with the Tribune since March 2016 and has been a business reporter since November 2016. Her stories have ranged from real estate to economic development for the Greeley and Weld County area.

Velazquez is a graduate of The University of Northern Colorado, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Mirror.

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.