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Crain’s Chicago hires Davis to cover tech and startups

Katherine Davis

Crain’s Chicago has hired reporter Katherine Davis to cover technology and startups.

She will start later this month.

Davis has been covering the same beat for Chicago Inn and the Chicago Business Journal for the past four years.

“Chicago’s tech and startup industry is fascinating and a beat I’ve really come to love, and I can’t wait to continue to tell your stories,” she wrote on Twitter.

Davis has been covering tech and startups in the city and its surrounding suburbs. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Columbia College Chicago, and her work has appeared in Modern Healthcare, Crain’s Chicago Business, and The Detroit News.

Inno, which covers startups and entrepreneurs, and the business journals are owned by American City Business Journals.

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.

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