Durham paper hires new business reporter

Zachery Eanes

Zachery Eanes has been hired as a business reporter at The Herald-Sun in Durham, North Carolina.

He replaces Alex Dixon, who left to work for restaurant magazines QSR and FSR in Chapel Hill.

“I am excited to join the staff at The Herald-Sun,” said Eanes in an email to Talking Biz News. “Durham is a vibrant and diverse city with many stories to chase. I hope to do great work here.”

Eanes is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in business journalism. He interned at the Washington Business Journal during the summer and at the Wilmington Business Journal in North Carolina during the Summer 2015.

He also worked at The Daily Tar Heel student newspaper while in college.

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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Tom says:
September 7, 2016 at 5:08 pm
Zach isn't the business reporter The Herald-Sun wants, he is the business reporter The Herald-Sun needs. I look forward to all of his contributions.