Detroit Free Press hires Stitt as a business reporter

Chanel Stitt

The Detroit Free Press has hired Chanel Stitt as a business reporter.

She will be covering minority businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.

Stitt has been reporting trending and breaking news for the Free Press as an intern this summer. She previously was interning for MLive.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where she was managing editor and then editor in chief of The Michigan Journal.

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.