Duffy to cover sportswear at Portland Biz Journal during Kish absence

Clare Duffy has recently joined the Portland Business Journal and will cover sportswear for the paper while Matthew Kish is at Columbia University on Knight-Bagehot fellowship.

Kish writes:

While I’m away, the Business Journal’s coverage of sportswear, banking and general assignment news won’t miss a beat.
Reporter Clare Duffy recently joined the newspaper. In my absence, she will write the bulk of the Business Journal’s coverage of Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Under Amour and others. She’s already written about this year’s class of Doernbecher Freestyle designers and profiled former Nike designer Mike Friton.

Duffy is a recent graduate of the University of Portland where she was the news and managing editor of The Beacon, the student newspaper.

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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.