Colorado paper hires new business reporter

Lucas High

Lucas High has been hired as a business reporter for the Longmont Times-Call newspaper in Colorado.

High has been the city and county government reporter for the Hilton Head Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina since August 2015.

Before that, High worked for two years at the Wyoming Tribune Eagle in Cheyenne, where he provided coverage of Cheyenne and Laramie County governments for the daily newspaper in Wyoming’s capital city.

High has a bachelor’s degree in business from Towson University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

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.