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Detroit News hires new auto reporter who’s following dad’s footsteps

Nora Naughton

Nora Naughton, a business development reporter at The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, has been hired as an auto reporter for The Detroit News.

She will start in late October.

Naughton’s father is Bloomberg News auto reporter Keith Naughton, who got his start covering the auto beat for the News in 1988.

Naughton also covered City Hall for the Stamford paper, which she joined in May 2016.

Before that, Naughton worked as a freelance reporter for Automotive News, where she interned for two summers as well.

She’s a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Eastern Echo.

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.

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