DC Inno hires Sabin as reporter

Sam Sabin

DC Inno has hired Samantha Sabin to cover startups and venture capital.

She starts Oct. 3. DC Inno is part of American City Business Journals and also has sites in Austin, Boston and Chicago.

“I’m eager to get back into tech reporting and join the DC Inno team next month,” said Sabin in an email to Talking Biz News. “The DC startup scene is growing fast, and I’m ready to follow it as it changes and expands.”

Sabin is a May 2016 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where she studied business journalism and political science. She interned for CNBC.com in San Francisco and for the business desk at The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

She also worked at the student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel, where she was director of investigations her senior year.

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.