Corridor Business Journal hires Pratt as a reporter

The Corridor Business Journal in Iowa has hired Richard Pratt as a reporter.

Pratt spent more than 20 years at the Cedar Rapids Gazette as an online content editor and as a digital editor.

He also worked at KCRG-TV9 as a web content editor and at Trucking Times as editor.

Pratt most recently spent two years at GoDaddy.com in hosting support.

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.