Denver Post names new business reporter

Joe Rubino

Lee Ann Colacioppo, the editor of the Denver Post, sent out the following announcement to the staff:

It’s with heavy heart, I tell you all that Joe Rubino is leaving his position on Your Hub where he has a done stellar job with the daunting task of covering Arapahoe and Douglas counties.
But it’s with a very happy heart I tell you that Joe Rubino is moving to The Now team where he will focus on consumer friendly news. We are going to take full advantage of his brains, his wit and his knowledge of Denver as we dig into this subject that we know is so important to our readers.

The position will cover news such as what’s going on with Amazon Prime Plus, new retail, and restaurants with headquarters in Denver such as Chipotle, but also covers consumer-minded finance.

Rubino worked at the Broomfield Enterprise and Boulder Daily Camera before joining Your Hub in February 2015. He is a Denver native and an alumnus of John F. Kennedy High School and the University of Colorado journalism school.

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.