Detroit News auto reporter joins Automotive News

Michael Wayland

Detroit News auto reporter Michael Wayland has been hired by Automotive News, a Crain’s publication.

A story on its website states, “Wayland, 30, comes from The Detroit News, where he worked for two and a half years covering Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the UAW, among other topics. He spent five years with Booth Newspapers and MLive Media Group, where he covered business and the Detroit automakers.

“He is president of the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is a board member of the Automotive Press Association.

“Wayland graduated from Central Michigan University in 2009 with a degree in English and journalism.”

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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.