Denver Post hires Boyanton as a business reporter

The Denver Post has hired Megan Boyanton as a business reporter covering the state’s marijuana industry and social inequalities in business.

She will start on Jan. 17.

Boyanton reports on the agriculture and trade policy beat for Bloomberg Government on Capitol Hill. She serves as vice chair of the Guild at Bloomberg Industry Group and co-chair of OPEN, the company’s LGBT+ organization. She is a member of the Overseas Press Club and North American Agricultural Journalists.

Boyanton is a Beltz Award for Editorial Excellence winner and White House Correspondents’ Association scholar.

She graduated from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication with her master’s degree in mass communication. Boyanton previously reported on the social justice beat as a Washington correspondent for Arizona PBS.

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.