Columbus Biz First reporter Bench is departing

Emily Bench

Columbus Business First reporter Emily Bench is leaving the American City Business Journals paper. Her last day is Friday.

She covered Ohio State University, tourism and the business of sports.

Before joining the paper, Bench was a freelance writer for the Columbus Dispatch. She also was a freelance writer for the Ohio Campus Compact.

Bench is a 2017 graduate of Otterbein University in journalism and mass communications. While there, she worked as a reporter and assistant editor on the Tan & Cardinal student magazine.

Bench received the Verda B. Evans journalism scholarship while at Otterbein.

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.