Columbus Biz First reporter Colombo moves to workforce and DEI coverage

Hayleigh Colombo

Columbus Business First reporter Hayleigh Colombo is now covering workforce development and diversity, equity and inclusion.

She will continue to cover the business of higher education, arts, sports, and tourism.

Colombo has been at Business First since September 2019. Before that, she spent more than five years at the Indianapolis Business Journal covering education and state government.

She also was an education reporter at Chalkbeat and a higher education reporter at the Journal and Courier in Lafayette, Indiana.

Colombo is a graduate of Butler Univesity.

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.